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GENEALOGY 

AND BIOGRAPHY 

OF THE 

DESCENDANTS OF ^ 

WALTER STEWART OF SCOTLAND 

AND OF JOHN STEWART 



WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 17 18, 

AND -f" 

SETTLED IN LONDONDERRY, N. H. 



BY 

B. FRANK SEVERANCE 



-" The men of yore, 



Who danced our infancy upon their knee, 
Hotv are they blotted from the things that he." 



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GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 

1905 



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PRINTED BY T. MOKEY ii SOW, 
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MRS. B. FRANK SEVERANCE, 

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^» WHO HAS AIDED AND ENCOURAGED ME 

§ IN THIS UNDERTAKING, THIS BOOK IS 

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 



" The profit of my living long ago 
I dedicated to the unloving dead, 
Though all my service they shall never know 
Whose world is vanished and their name unsaid. 

For none remembers now the good, the ill 

They did, the deeds they thought should last for aye ; 

But in the Httle room my voice can fill 

They shall not be forgotten till I die. 

So, in a lonely churchyard by the shore, 
The sea winds sift the sand across the mounds 
And those forgotten graves are found no more. 
And no man knows the churchyard's holy bounds ; 

Till one comes by and stoops with reverent hands 
To clear the graves of their encumbering sands." 



INTRODUCTION. 

A late writer says, " They who appear utterly 
indifferent to their lineage and term all interest 
in such matters a foolish weakness, are acting 
contrary to a strong principle of nature, and lay 
themselves open to the assumption, that they have 
a pedigree of which they are not proud." 

What led to this work was a desire to know 
more about my Stewart ancestors, their descent 
and their descendants. I had heard many tradi- 
tions among which was that of our Royal descent 
and the great fortune across the water that awaited 
the Stewart heirs in America. Efforts have been 
made to trace the line in Scotland and Ireland 
with no definite results. All evidence we have 
been able to procure in reference to the tradi- 
tional " Royal blood " has been laid before the 
reader, and I leave it to him to form his own opin- 
ion as I have done. 

Not until the thorough work done by the late 
Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, in his " History of 
Windham, N. H.," was my interest in our Stewart 
lineage fully aroused, yet not satisfied. My in- 
terest was again forcibly stirred, when some years 

(vii) 



Vlll INTRODUCTION 



ago the " Biographical Review of Franklin County, 
Mass.," appeared. From this I referred to Mc- 
Clellan's " Early Settlers of Colrain," which, with 
a correspondence with Mr. McClellan, gave me 
many helpful and interesting points, and the 
more I learned, the deeper I resolved to plunge 
into this sea of mystery, without a thought of its 
ever reaching the printer's hands. Another cor- 
respondence followed with Mr. Morrison, giving 
me encouragement to follow up the Stewart re- 
search and bring it to completion. It was here 
I confided my desire for a future prospect of a 
Stewart History to my esteemed friend, the late 
James W. Sweely, publisher of the " Williamsport, 
Fa., Sun," whose wife is a descendant of the Stew- 
arts. In him I found an interested helper, even 
proposing to arrange and publish in book form 
any Stewart material I might be able to collect. 
From this time my correspondence widened and 
my task expanded. Many refused to respond to 
my appeal for records and information, and many 
gaps will appear in consequence, while many have 
rendered valuable assistance for which due ac- 
knowledgment is made. 

The Stewarts have been a race of pioneers from 
the time of their first settlement upon American 
soil, and some of them have disappeared leaving 
no vestige by which they could be identified, but 



INTRODUCTION IX 



those we have been able to trace have been brave 
and steadfast defenders of Freedom, in nearly all 
the conflicts in which the Country has been in- 
volved, from the Colonial strife to the late war 
with Spain. 

Through the kindness of the Librarian of the 
New England Historical and Genealogical Li- 
brary, Boston, Mass., I came in contact with Mr. 
Joseph A. Stuart's " Duncan Stuart Family," 
which opened a broad and interesting field for 
search, in which I eventually received inestimable 
assistance and encouragement from Mr. Inglis 
Stuart of New York City, to whom I acknowl- 
edge my indebtedness and render most hearty 
thanks. Acknowledgment and thanks are also 
due to Capt. James Thompson for much valuable 
material relating to the Stewarts of his town, 
Salem, N. Y., taken from the " History of 
Washington County " and from personal knowl- 
edge. 

The " Salem Book," the " Old White Church," 
and the " History of Cortland County" have 
yielded up their store, and been of assistance. 
The " History of the Connecticut Valley," " Life 
of Ethan Allen," " Dr. Holland's Western Massa- 
chusetts," and " Willey's Book of Nutfield " have 
been examined and material gleaned therefrom. 
Hemenway's " Historical Gazetteer," Mr. Shel- 



INTRODUCTION 



don's " History of Deerfield " and Mrs. Kellogg's 
" History of Bernardston," have contributed lib- 
erally from their interesting pages, while the 
" Peck Genealogy," "Clark Genealogy," "Haven 
Genealogy" and the " Trowbridge Genealogy" 
have greatly aided this work, and interesting ma- 
terial has been copied from " Among the Scotch- 
Irish," by L. A. Morrison. Town and probate 
records, land transfers, and old tombstones have 
been looked over. Old church records have been 
searched as far as possible, many of the latter hav- 
ing long ago disappeared. Many early town and 
family records were in most cases imperfectly 
kept, and all that remains of scores of our ances- 
tors repose in unmarked graves. 

My thanks are due to Mr. Charles B. Stewart 
of Glens Falls, N. Y., for the loan of old letters, 
and to all who have furnished items of history, 
and copies of old letters and papers I render 
grateful acknowledgment. 

Just as my manuscript was ready for his hand, 
Mr. Sweely, the expected printer, passed suddenly 
away, and the publication of our little History 
seemed uncertain. Friends remained hopeful and 
here again Mr. Inglis Stuart came to the rescue 
and gave a tremendous impetus to the work with 
a liberal cash subscription, and now the task is 
finished. 



INTRODUCTION XI 



To one who lays no claim to literary talent it 
has been a difficult but instructive work, it having 
been necessary to make general history a con- 
stant source of reference. I have been vigilant 
for errors, both for my own and those of others, 
yet errors will appear, but dear reader, be sparing 
of your criticism, take up a similar work and do 
it to perfection, then "cast the first stone.'* 



STEWART GENEALOGY 



Origin of the Name of Stewart. 

The derivation and meaning of any family 
name is a center of interest, and from the fol- 
lowing we get the clearest idea of the origin of 
the name of Stewart. (|:^^<;j:i-cv'\ y-c^V^^" / 

" The Stewarts are of NormanAblood. A gen- 
tleman by the name of Alan, a Norman, accom- 
panied William the Conqueror into England and 
obtained by his gift the lands and castle of Os- 
westry in Shropshire with the title of Lord Os- 
westry. His eldest son, William, became the 
ancestor of the Earls of Arundel. His second 
son, Walter, went to Scotland and became promi- 
nent in the service of David 1st, and had large 
territorial possessions conferred on him by that 
monarch, including the Barony of Renfrew, to- 
gether with the office of Lord High Steward of 
Scotland. The Stewardship became hereditary, in 
his family and was assumed by his descendants as 
a surname with the single change of the final let- 

I 



GENEALOGY OF 



ter ' d ' to *t,' so that the proper orthography is 
not Stuart but Stewart. Mary, Queen of Scots, is 
responsible for the change of the original name. 
She was educated in France and wrote her name 
in the French language, in the alphabet of which 
there is no ' w '. Stuart is the French orthography 
of the name. Thus originated the name of Stew- 
art. 

First Generation. 

Comparatively little information can be found 
concerning Walter Stewart 1st, but it is said that 
he belonged to the " House of White Rose," 
and that his estate lay in Perthshire, Scotland. 
A letter from Walter MacLeod, 112 Thirlestone 
Road, Edinburgh, tells us nothing of his ante- 
cedents, and here we are compelled to let the 
matter rest and turn our attention to his descend- 
ants. / 

Second Generation. 

Robert,^ (Walter,^) b. 1655, m. Jannette For- 
sythe, probably daughter of James or William For- 
sythe. From History of Windham, N. H. : " He 
is said to have been one of the Covenanters who 
took part in Battle of Bothwel] Bridge in 1679, be- 
tween troops of Charles 1 1, and the Covenanters led 
by their ministers, in which the Covenanters were 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 



defeated with great loss. In 1685 Charles II. hav- 
ing died, he was immediately succeeded by his 
brother James II., the cruel and unrelenting foe 
of Scotch Presbyterians. The Covenanters were 
hunted like beasts of prey, and in the very heart 
of the mountain solitudes they were traced and 
slain. It was during these fierce persecutions 
that Robert Stewart sundered the ties of kindred 
and association and became an unwilling exile. 
Crossing the North Channel in an open boat he 
fled to Ireland where many of his clan seemed to 
have preceded him. He settled at Londonderry, 
where he was soon joined by his family, but even 
here they were not safe from tyranny and perse- 
cution ; the Papists were there. King James's 
officers in Ireland were mostly of the Catholic 
faith and determined to advance that cause. The 
Protestants were disarmed and placed in a de- 
fenseless condition. Being surrounded by Cath- 
olics they were not safe in life or property, their 
houses were burned, their cattle stolen and the 
Catholic soldiers roamed the country, pillaging, 
maiming and committing all kinds of outrages. 
Such tyranny of the king awakened fierce alarm 
in the three kingdoms, and the leading men of 
England invited William, Prince of Orange, who 
had married the eldest daughter of James II., to 
come over from Holland and assume the govern- 



GENEALOGY OF 



ment. He arrived in England November 5, 
1688, and the army, the clergy and the people 
going over to William, James fied to France, but 
he resolved not to give up his kingdom without 
a struggle, and his greatest strength being in his 
Irish-Catholic adherents, he landed in Ireland 
March 12, 1689. Here the Protestant commu- 
nities of the North of Ireland stood in his way. 
The strongest of these towns was Londonderry, 
and the now powerful army of King James was 
bent upon the capture of the city, the siege of 
which, with its horrors and heroism, is familiar 
history with the descendants of those sturdy 
Scotch ancestors who made such a heroic de- 
fense and saved Protestantism in the United 
Kingdom. Peace having been restored and tol- 
erance of religious sentiments allowed, we find 
our Robert returning to the land he loved, but 
never having recovered his estate." He died 
in Edinburgh in 1714. His widow came to 
America, and is supposed to have died at Colrain, 
Mass., at an advanced age. She was wont to re- 
late to her descendants the thrilling incidents of 
her life in connection with the cruel persecutions 
of the Covenanters in Scotland by James II. 

Children. 
John,^ Robert,^ Julia Ann,^ Samuel.^ 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 



Third Generation. 

John,^ (Robert/ Walter/) b. in Edinburg, 
Scotland, 1682. Seems to have returned in early 
life to seek his fortune amid the scenes of his 
boyhood in Ireland, where he m. Elizabeth, 
daughter of John Clark. The Clarks were a 
Scotch-Irish family. He m. 2d, Elizabeth For- 
sythe. 

Although the Revolution had subjugated the 
Papist party, still our Scotch-Irish ancestors ex- 
perienced many embarrassments. A tenth of 
their increase was rigorously exacted to aid in 
supporting a minister of the established religion. 
They also held their lands and tenements by lease 
and not as proprietors of the soil. Morrison's 
" Among the Scotch-Irish " quotes from an in- 
teresting sketch from which we glean the follow- 
ing, " On a certain September morning, in the 
year 171 8, a cavalcade, in which were women and 
children, whose dress and bearing bespoke the 
farming class, might have been seen leaving Ag- 
hadowey, by the Derry road. In the cavalcade 
were a number of old-fashioned wheel cars, with 
low, solid wheels and broad bottoms, upon which 
were piled provisions, wearing apparel and house- 
hold efi-ects. Accompanying the procession, and 
acting as guide, philosopher, and friend, was a 
clergyman in the prime of life, and dressed in the 



GENEALOGY OF 



simple garb of the Presbyterian ministers of that 
period. As the cavalcade wends its way along 
the road, the people are ever and anon casting 
regretful looks at the waving fields of golden 
corn, the green valleys and the wooded hills, now 
assuming an autumnal brown of their native par- 
ish. The cavalcade is a band of emigrants of 
about lOO families on their way to Londonderry, 
there to embark for the Western world. Their 
clergyman is Rev. James McGregor, minister of 
the Presbyterian congregation of Aghadowey to 
which all the families belonged, and who accom- 
panied them to America. 

The reasons which induced this people to leave 
their native land and undertake a voyage across 
the Atlantic, which in those days was tedious and 
full of hardships, and to face the uncertain pros- 
pects of new settlers, was partly religious and 
partly agrarian. Being Presbyterians they were 
subjected to the unjust and insulting provisions 
of the Test Act, under which it was penal for a 
person of their persuasion to teach a school or 
hold the humblest office in the State. Then 
again, at the time of the Revolution, when a con- 
siderable part of the country lay waste, and when 
the whole framework of society was shattered, 
land had been let out on lease at very low rents 
to Presbyterian tenants. About 1 7 1 7-1 7 1 8 these 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 



leases began to fall in, and the rents were usually 
doubled and frequently tripled. Hence farmers 
became discouraged, and a number of them be- 
longing to Aghadowey formed the design of emi- 
grating to America, where they would be able to 
reap the fruits of their own industry. They 
landed at Boston on the 14th of October, 171 8. 
In the spring of 1719, sixteen families proceeded 
to the state of New Hampshire, where they 
founded a town, which they called Londonderry, 
in patriotic recollection of the county they had 
left. Here, too, they organized the first Presby- 
terian church in New England, of which Mr. 
McGregor assumed the pastoral charge without 
ordination." 

Among these emigrants, and one of the sixteen 
settlers, we find our John Stewart with his own 
and his mother's family, who have left their homes 
again, this time to better their fortunes in the 
Western world. 

John Stewart was a prominent man in the 
Londonderry settlement. We find from Mor- 
rison's " History of Windham, N. H.," that he 
was one of the grantees of the town. 

His farm was known as the Precept Farm or 
Lot and was of sixty acres. He became dissatis- 
fied and complained of wrong done to him in lay- 
ing out his land by unjust methods, and in 1728 



8 GENEALOGY OF 



petitioned to the General Assembly for redress as 
follows. From History of Windham, N. H. 

" To the Honourable John Wentworth, Esq., 
Leutt Governor commander in chieffof Hampshr, 
and to the Generall Assembly of both houses. 

*^ The humble petition of the subscribers to this 
Honourable Assembly, wee complean of wrong 
don to us and grivoos injustice in laying outt our 
land by unjust methods viz. that a part of our 
proprietors have taken their chois of all our cum- 
mons and we are nott allowed neither lott or chois 
and rendered unsheur of having our hom lotts 
made Equal with others, one method Dos not 
prevail hear to do as they would be done by. 
Wee the Complanentt Desire and make requeast 
-for a practicable reull that may yealld saiftly to 
every party and thatt a magor vote may not cutte 
any propriator outt of his right by design or con- 
ning which shall further appear by a paper an- 
nexed here unto, which will make it appear mor 
fully to have ben practised hear on propertie 
hurttofore another the complanentt seke for re- 
dress from this Honorable house and your peti- 
tioners shall ever pray. 

" May the 15th 1728. 

"John Stewart & OTHERS.' 



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The petition was granted and additional land 
was laid out to him on that part of Londonderry 
which is now Windham — a long narrow strip of 
land between Cobbet's Pond and Policy Pond 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 



(now called Canobie Lake), a description of which 
we get from " Willey's Book of Nutfield." 

" Londondery 9ber nth 1728. Then laid out 
to John Stewart thirty-four acres of land which is 
full for his satisfaction of his amendment and 
twenty acres addition. Said land lies southerly 
of Cobbet's Pond (sometimes called Cubages 
Pond) and is bounded on the west by a maple 
tree marked, from thence running southeast and 
bounding on John Barr's land to Policy Pond 
and bounding northeasterly on said pond to a 
stake and stones from thence running northwest 
and bounding on Samuel Allisan's land to a 
swamp to a dry oak tree marked, from thence 
running southwesterly to the bounds first men- 
tioned, there being land allowed within said 
bounds for two cross roads not exceeding six rods 
wide. Recorded this fourth day Jan^^ 1728-29. 
Pr. John Mc Murphy, Town Clerk, John 
Wallace, John Archibald, John Mitchell, Com- 
mittee. 

"At a proprietor's meeting held at Londonderry 

Nov"" 10*^ 1728 the return of the aforesaid record 

was read and approved of by the town for the 

said John Stewart's use, benefit, and behoof in fee. 

" Attest Pr. 

" John Mc Murphy, 

" Town Clerk." 

This land was afterward inherited and occupied 
by his son John, and here his grandson John 



10 GENEALOGY OF 



was born and resided till he removed to Shelburne, 
Mass., in 1773. 

It seems it was not always smooth sailing in 
this little Londonderry settlement. Some of the 
inhabitants were desirous of forming a new parish 
in another part of the town a good distance away. 
To this John Stewart and others were most 
bitterly opposed as the following petition shows, 

" We the under Subscribers being Inhab- 
itants of L : Derry and province of New Hamp- 
shire (viz) living in the Southerly part of sd town, 
we are informed that there are Sundry of our 
Neighbors Petitioners your Excelly and Hon^^for 
a new parish in sd Town, therefore we wod sig- 
nify to your Excell and Hon'"^ that we hope by 
the blessing of God in a fue years to be ft to be 
Erected into a parish or precinct by ourselves 
therefore we pray your Excell and Hon''^ not to 
hurt our yong beginnings in setting off a new 
parish in said town of Londonderry, as witness 
our hands. Dated at Londonderry aforesaid 
Feby the 9th 1739-40. 

"John Stewart and others." 

It seems that this petition was not successful 
and a new parish was soon after incorporated. 

These old Scotch ancestors generally got about 
all they asked for. " Stubborn as a Scotchman " 
was a trite saying, and to illustrate the character 
and fixedness of purpose of these peculiar people, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS TI 

I pen the following authentic anecdote, " Two 
church members, one a Scotchman and the other 
a Scotch-Irishman, had quarreled about some 
simple matter, and the feeling had become deep 
and bitter. Their minister labored long and 
earnestly to reconcile them, but neither would 
yield. At last after a long and serious talk the 
Scotch-Irishman consented to meet his Scotch 
fellow-member in a friendly manner and let the 
past be forgotten. The minister then went to 
the Scotchman, but he was as firm as ever, and, as 
he expressed it, he ' would have nothing to do 
with the other man.' Finally the minister bore 
down on him rather hard, urging upon him his 
Christian duty and asking him: 'How can you 
expect to be forgiven if you will not forgive ? ' 
When at last the Scotchman with great emotion, 
while trying to suppress his tears, exclaimed : 
' Yes, yes, I'll forgive him, but I want to get one 
good crack at him first.' " 

John Stewart, 3d, was a carpenter by trade. 
He made his will April 3, 1741, and died three 
days later and is buried in the ancient cemetery at 
Derry, N. H. The following inscription is 
copied from his tombstone, a large horizontal 
slab. 



t1 GENEALOGY OF 



Memento Mori 

Nam sito lahitur hora. 

Here lyes the intered body of 

Mary Stuard, the daughter of 

John Stuard and Ehz his wife, 

who departed this Hfe November 

the 7, 1738 and in the 11 

year of her age. 

Here lyeth also the body of 

John Stuart father of the 

aforesaid Mary who departed this 

mortal life about the 60 year of 

his age and on the 6 day of 

April Anno Domini 1741. 

His wife died in Colrain, Mass., and was buried 
in the old cemetery on the hill. The date of her 
death is unknown, with nothing to mark the spot 
where her dust reposes. 

The inventory of the estate of John Stewart is 
so quaint and suggestive of the old relics that it 
is given here verbatim : 

" Londonderry July the 14th 1741. 

"We have taken a true Inventory of the Estate 
of John Stewart Late Deceased of Londonderry 
according to the best of our judgment Pursuant 
to a Warrant from the Tudge of the Probate. 

" The Real Estate X730 the Cattle Belonging 
to the Estate £\^i To Notes of hand ^£^196 to 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I3 

Beding ^40 a Chest of Draws ^8 — ^i 186 11 2 
Waring Apparel £^10 Tand Leather ^2 to Saws 
251 Spinning Wlieels and Reel 801 to Pots 551 
to Butter 351 to Chest and Table 401 33 15 one 
old gun loi to Books 401 to Chairs 301 to a 
Saddle 401 to Flax 451 to Bags 301 Peuter 651 
Iron Toals ^6-10 to Barrels and Wooden Ves- 
sels ^4.10-24 a Cart ^7 one Iron Harrow ^2.10 
a pair of old Butts loi Hogs ^5 15." 

This sketch would hardly seem complete with- 
out a copy of his will which is here given, 

"In the Name of God Amen I John Stuart of 
Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire 
Yeoman Being very Sick and weak of Body 
But of a perfect mind and memory thanks be 
Given to God therefore Calling to mind the 
Mortality of my Body and knowing it is ap- 
pointed for all Men once to Dye do make and 
Ordain this to be my last Will and Testament 
Principally and first I give and Recommend my 
Soul into the hands of God who gave it me and 
as for my Body I Recommend to the Dust to be 
Buried in a Christian Manner at the discretion 
of my Executors Doubting nothing But at the 
Resurrection I shall Receive the Same by the 
Almighty power of God and as for what it hath 
pleased God to Bless me with in this world I 
Give and Bequeath in manner as follows : Imp^ I 
give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved wife 
Elizabeth Stuart one hundred and fifty Pounds 



14 GENEALOGY OF 



Bills of Credits to be paid out of my Personal 
Estate Besides the one third of my house and 
Dwelling Lands and Improvement During her 
natural Life. 

Imp"" I Give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
loved Son Charles Stuart ten Pounds to be paid 
to him out of my Estate. 

Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my Gran- 
Daughter Mary Stuart ten Pounds to be paid out 
of my Estate. 

Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my Son Rob- 
ert Stuart ten Pounds to be paid out of my Estate. 

Imp'' I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
loved Son James Stuart the sum of ten Pounds 
to be paid out of my Estate. 

Imp^ I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
loved Son John Stuart ten Pounds to be paid 
out of my Estate. 

Imp'" I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
loved Son Samuel Stuart the one half of all the 
Remaining part of my Estate excepting what is 
Before Bequeathed. 

Imp"" I give and Bequeath unto my well Be- 
loved Son Joseph Stuart and Margaret Stuart 
my well Beloved Daughter the other half of my 
Remaining Estate equally to be Divided Between 
them ; and I appoint my Son Charles Stuart 
aforesaid and Samuel Stuart of Andover to be 
my Executors of this my Will and Testament 
Rattifying and Confirming this and no other to 
be my Last Will and Testament Revoking all 
others Whatsoever. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 5 

Dated at Londonderry this third day of April 
and in the Year of our Lord God one thousand 
seven hundred and forty one. 

Signed Sealed Published 

pronouced and Declared 

to be my Last Will Testa- John Stuart [Seal] 

ment in Presents of 

John Wiear Jonathan Morison 

Samuel Alison Junr." 

Children of John Stewart, mostly Born in 

Ireland. 

I. Charles 4, b. 1705 (?) d. 1777- 

1. Robert 4, b. ? d .^ 

3. James 4, b. ? d. ? 

4. John 4, b. 1711, d. March 29, 1761. 

5. Mary 4, b. 171 6, d. Nov. 7, 1738. 

6. Samuel 4, b. ? d. ? 

7. Joseph 4, b. Londonderry, N. H., 1721, d. 

1821. 

8. Margaret 4, b. ? m. William Aken. All 

trace of her lost. 

Fourth Generation. 

Charles,* (John,^ Robert," Walter,^) b. in Ireland 
about 1705, came to America with his father in 
171 8 ; m. 1st, Mary , 2d, Martha, daughter 



l6 GENEALOGY OF 



of Samuel Ayers of Colrain, Mass., 3d, Jennet 
Linley, April 24, 1759, of Pelham, Mass. 

He lived at Londonderry, N. H., and in 1744 
he bought of Margaret Aken (probably his sister) 
her right in her father's estate. February 27, 1 748, 
he bought two lots of land in Colrain, of Samuel 
Rankin of Londonderry. August 26, 1748, he 
seems to have sold his homestead at Londonderry 
to his brother, John Stewart of Windham, N. H., 
and about that time removed to Colrain. June 19, 
1749, he bought a house and home lot of Joseph 
Rankin of Pelham upon which he settled the same 
year. He was chosen tithingman in 1754. Again 
he was chosen tithingman and one of the commit- 
tee to manage the affairs of the town in 1759; 
was also surveyor and hog constable. His will, 
dated April i, 1776, and probated May 6, 1777, 
may prove interesting to his descendants, and 
abstracts of the same are copied. 

" I will and bequeath unto my Dear and Lov- 
ing Wife the dwelling house where I do now 
dwell, together with one bed and all the other 
household furniture to the house belonging and a 
certain chest now in said house with all every 
appurtence and privilege to the house belonging 
or any ways appurtaining thereto during her life 
or as long as she shall remain my widow, and at 
her decease, or at contracting matrimony, then the 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 7 

before given and bequeathed premises to be and 
become my dear and beloved son William Stewart 
and his heirs forever. 

Item. I also give and bequeath unto my said 
wife one Cow to her during her life. 

Item. I give and bequeath and do order that 
my executor hereafter named do provide and give 
to my said wife exclusive of all the before be- 
queathed effects a good sufficient and comfortable 
coat. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto my well be- 
loved daughter Jennet Bell to the full and just 
value of a good cow to be raised and paid for by 
executor hereafter named. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto every and 
each of my children hereafter named. Viz. to my 
son John Stewart and allso to my son Samuel 
Stewart the sum of five Shillings Sterling money, 
also to my daughters Elizabeth Clark, Mary Peck, 
Margaret Anderson, Jennet Bell, Rebecca Stewart 
and Lydia McKown, each and every of them the 
sum of five shillings Sterling money. To be paid 
to them by my executor hereafter named. 

Item, all other of my Personal estate I do 
hereby will give and bequeath the same to my 
eldest son William Stewart his heirs and assigns 
forever and I do hereby constitute make appoint 
and ordain the said William Stewart my sole ex- 
ecutor to this my last will and testament. I do 
hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all 
and every other former testament Wills Legacies 
and bequests and executors be me in any wise 



I 8 GENEALOGY OF 



made or named before willed and bequeathed 
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be 
my last will and testament. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my 
hand and seal the day and year above written. 

his 

Charles+Stewart. [Seal] 

mark 

Signed sealed published and pronounced and 
declared by the said Charles Stewart as his last 
will and testament in the presence of us, the sub- 
scribers. 

Thomas Bell. 

William Clark. 

Thomas Bell, Junr." 

His farm was located in a wild and romantic 
little valley made still more weird by the frequent 
Indian raids and depredations committed here 
during the French and Indian war of that period. 
It was lot 22 and he was the fifth owner and the 
third or fourth occupant. It was bounded south 
by Matthew Clark, west by the highway, north 
by land of John Anderson, and east by the town 
line. He died about 1777, and the old house is 
removed, but the little green plot is there, and a 
phantom presence hovers around the spot and 
guards its sacredness, while like a beautiful mi- 
rage, there is flashed upon the vision an humble 
abode with its huge chimney sending forth a slow 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I9 

flowing Stream of curling, white smoke, while 
busy feet flit lightly about bent upon the various 
duties assigned them to keep the wolf and the 
enemy from the door, for " eternal vigilance is 
again the price of safety," the savage foe lurks in 
ambush, the danger signal is wafted loud and deep 
through the air, anxious faces peer around cor- 
ners, and soon the members of this busy family 
are on the way up the rugged hillside to the 
nearest fort for protection. The curtain falls ; 
wild nature is subdued, the corner stones of our 
quiet, comfortable homes are laid. He was a 
soldier in the French and Indian war. The old 
pewter cup, with which he served out rations of 
rum to the soldiers in Fort Lucas, has long been 
an heirloom in the family, and is now in the pos- 
session of one of his descendants in Pennsylvania. 
He was buried in the old hillside cemetery at 
Colrain. 

" E'en to this day a rude enclosure pressed 
On flank and rear by tangl'd thickets deep ; 
Rank grasses, by the gentle winds caressed, 
Crown the rough sod neath which the fathers sleep. 

That spot is hallowed by the honored dust 
Of those who sowed that other hands might reap. 
What garnered treasure held in sacred trust 
Is half so precious as the one we keep ? " 



20 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

1. Elizabeth 5, b. Jan. 11, 1729,111. John Clark 

of Colrain, Mass. 

Children. 

1. Matthew 6 6. Mary 6 

2. Agnes 6 7. Jennet 6 

3. Charles 6 8. John 6 

4. Rebecca 6 ^9. Ichabod 6 

5. Daniel 6 10. Elizabeth 6 

2. Mary 5, b. May 5, 1730, m. Abraham Peck 

of Colrain. 

Children. 

1. Samuel 6 5. Rachel 6 

2. Sarah 6 6. Abraham 6 

3. Mary 6 7. Lydia 6 

4. John 6 8. Margaret 6 

3. Margaret 5, b. Oct. 4, 1731, ni. ist, John 

Kately of Colrain. 

Children. 

1. Hannah 6, b. April 22, 1752. 

2. John 6,b. 1753- 

His widow m. 2d, John Anderson of Colrain, 
son of John and Mary Anderson, and grandson 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 21 

of John Anderson who came from the north of 
Ireland and settled in Londonderry, N. H., as 
early as 1725. John and Margaret Anderson re- 
moved to Shelburne, Mass., about 1771. 

Children, b. in Colrain. 

I. Mary 6, b. Oct. 20, 1755. 

—2. James 6, b. Oct. 3, 1757. 

3. Rebecca 6, b. Sept. 3, 1759. 

4. David 6, b. April 10, 1761. 

5. Lydia 6, b. May 15, 1763. 

6. Elizabeth 6, b. Jan. 15, 1765. 

7. Jonathan 6, b. March 17, 1767. 

8. Margaret 6, b. May 16, 1769. 

9. Martha 6, b. ? 

10. Sarah 6, b. ? 

The last two were born in Shelburne. 

Mr. Anderson d. in Shelburne, Dec. 22, 1780. 
His widow m. 3d, Lieut. James Stewart of Colrain. 
He was one of Colrain's most prominent men. 

It was his brother Alexander who carried away 
the " Catalogue of the Stewart Family " to Penn-^* 
sylvania. They were sons of James Stewart, Sr., 
of Colrain who came from Concord in 1743 and 
settled in Colrain. James Stewart, Sr., was a de- 
scendant of John Stewart, natural son of King 
Robert III. of Scotland. 



11 GENEALOGY OF 



4. William 5, b. Feb. 12, 1733. 

5. John 5, b. about 1735. 

6. Jennet 5, b. ? m. Joseph Bell of Halifax, 

Vt. 

Children. 
I. Catherine 6 5. Joseph 6 

1. Susannah 6 6. Polly 6 

3. James 6 7. David 6 

4. John 6 

7. Samuel 5, mentioned in his father's will and 

no further trace. 

8. Rebecca 5, b. 1742, m. her cousin, John 

Stewart. 

9. Lydia 5, m. Joseph McKown of Colrain. 

McKown was an Indian fighter and did val- 
uable service in the Colonial Wars. He 
died in 1791. 

Child. 

I. Hannah 6, b. 1776, m. Thomas Rogers and 

went to Ohio in 18 12, Mrs. McKown going 

with them. 

Robert,^ (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) m. in 

Andover, 1735, Lydia Blair (?). He was a 

soldier in the French and Indian War ; was at 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 23 

No. 4 (Charlestown, N. H.), in 1747 ; enlisted at 
Windham, N. H., April 7, 1760, in Capt. Alex- 
ander Todd's Co., John Goffe, Col. Was he the 
settler on Borden's tract mentioned in the " Gen- 
ealogical History of the Descendants of John 
Walker," compiled by Mrs. E. S. White ? 

James,^ (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) no record. 

John,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Ire- 
land, 171 1, and came to America with his 
father in 171 8 ; m. Rebecca (Costa) Patten. She 
was born in Edinburgh and married there Robert 
Patten, who died on the passage to America and 
was buried in the sea. John Stewart removed to 
Windham, N. H., and was the first occupant upon 
the land of his father. He was invoice taker in 
Windham in 1743, selectman in 1745, surveyor 
in 1748, tithingman in 1749, 1758 and 1759. He 
was innkeeper in 1755, and February 17th of that 
year the town voted to pay him fifty shillings, old 
tenor (413 cents), per week for entertaining the 
ministers. January 10, 1758, the town voted to 
allow him four pounds, old tenor (66f cents), per 
week. He remonstrated against this small allow- 
ance and March 27, 1759, in answer to his de- 
mands, it was voted to pay him six pounds (one 
dollar) per week. He was a soldier in the French 
and I ndian War, and was one of the garrison who so 



24 GENEALOGY OF 



gallantly defended No. 4 (Charlestown, N. H.). 
He again entered the service March 26, 1760, 
under Col. John Goffe, Alexander Todd, Capt., 
for the invasion of Canada. The regiment went 
to Crown Point. They were forty- four days in 
cutting their way to the foot of the Green Moun- 
tains which they crossed by packing and hauling 
their stores over the mountains on horse harrows. 
He died from the effects of hard service in this 
expedition, March 29, 1761, and the following 
is a copy of his inventory, 

An inventory of the Estate of John Stewart, 
Dec"^., taken by us. 

To the Real Estate that belonged to said 

Deceased to the home lot with the 

eleven acres Called the little lot £, 4000 00 

To a lot of Land Lying at West end 

of Cobbet's pond so Called 2500 00 

An acre of Medow in flat To a lot of 

Land lying in a Town Called Hales- 

aches, No. 21, by Reporte to 21, 

Valued at 181 00 

To one yoke of oxen and live Stock 729 00 

To one old Carte, old plows and other 

farming utensils 161 00 

To two old Sithes and one harrow, old 

Iron bar, two old axes and other old 

utensils belonging to farming 60 00 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 2^ 

To one old gun one pair of old Pistols, 

old but lash 30 00 



Carried forward £ 7661 00 



To an Old Saddle and old bridle, old 

Cloath housand and old Pannell and 

old Pillon 
To the wearing Apparels of the De- 
ceased 
To the Household furniture, to three 

beds 
To Tables and old Desk, old Chest 

with Draws 
To table Linen with other old articles 
To old Puter Knives and forks with 

other articles 
To an old Lucking Glass, two old flax 

Combs, other articles 
To four old Iron Pots and one Box 

Iron and other articles 
To twelve Chairs and other Great 

Chair and other articles 
To Syder Barrels, other articles 
To Linning yarn, three small house 

bibles with old Sarmon books 
To striped Linnen Cloath with flax 
To ten yards of Woolen Cloath and 

thirteen pounds of tobacco 



30 


00 


128 


GO 


312 


GO 


55 


00 


18 


GO 


66 


GO 


31 


GO 


73 


GO 


40 


GO 


30 


GO 


58 


GO 


39 


GO 


66 


GO 



Sum Total in old Ten^ 8607 go 



26 GENEALOGY OF 



Province of ) Augt. the 13th, 176 1 

New Hampshire. S James Paul and Gain 
Armour Respectively made Solemn 
Oath that they had apprized the Par- 
ticulars Contained in the above Inven- 
tory at the True Value according to 
the best of their Judgment 

Sworn Before, 

Matthew Thornton, 

Just, of Peace. 



His estate remained undivided until 1770. His 
widow married 3d, David Hopkins and removed 
with her husband to Shelburne, Mass., where she 
died Feb. 6, 1802, a. 90. 

Morrison's " History of Windham, N. H.," 
pays the following tribute to the old Stewart 
homestead at Windham : " The farm is now a 
pasture, and covered with wood ; ministers are en- 
tertained there no more ; the Stewarts are gone ; 
the buildings disappeared nearly one hundred 
years ago ; the cellar is still there, and from its 
crumbling and tumble-down walls has grown a 
birch tree, on which a grapevine has thrown its 
clinging tendrils. These, with a black currant 
bush which yearly blossoms and yields its fruit, 
are all that remains to mark the home of one of 
the earliest settlers of Windham." 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 27 



Children b. in Windham. 

1. John 5, b. Sept. 22, 1743. 

2. Robert 5, b. Sept. 15, 1748. 

3. Rebecca 5, b. Dec. 20, 1750, d. Feb. 26, 

1757- 

4. Mary 5, b. May 2, 1753, d. March 8, 1757. 

5. Hannah 5, b. Nov. 1755, d. March 15, 

1757- 

6. Adam 5, b. 1758, d. April 24, 1777. 

Adam ^ is spoken of as one of the " trainable 
soldiers" of Windham belonging to Capt. James 
Gilmore's Co. 

Samuel,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter/) b. ?, 

m. Alice Atchinson (?) who is thought to 
have been the widow of his brother James. 
Came to Colrain, Mass., prior to 1751 ; owned 
and occupied the east half of lot No. 6, which 
was located about forty rods north of Fort Mor- 
ris. The changes which a hundred and twenty- 
five years have wrought have nearly obliterated 
the site of another old Stewart homestead, yet 
enough remains to hallow the spot, which re- 
mained in possession of the Stewarts for upwards 
of twenty years. It has been a pasture for many 
years, but could the old turf speak and tell the 
tale of pioneer life there, more facts would be 
known and more history written. August 24, 



28 GENEALOGY OF 



1770, when Samuel and his wife AHce sold the 
home lot, they were of Shelburne, Mass. 
April 20, 1780, when they sold land in the second 
division, they were of Colrain. This is the last 
mention we find of him. Samuel probably died at 
or near Salem, N. Y., previous to 1 800, when we 
catch the last glimpse of Alice, apparently then a 
widow " living at Merrimans " (probably the 
family of a daughter) and evidently soon to move 
with that family still westward " to the Ohio." 
It is supposed that she died in or near Beaver, 
Pa. She is said to have been called a " whole 
divine," good Scotch doubtless in theology. 
A Spartan mother who gave to her offspring 
their full share of the ancestral love for emigra- 
tion, and to her sons that stanch and fearless 
patriotism that flowed so naturally in her veins. 

Children. 

1. John 5, b. in Londonderry, N. H., Sept. 12, 

1745. (See Memoir of Capt. John Stew- 
art, page 165.) 

2. William 5, b. not later than 1746, m. Mary 

Harris. Served in Capt. Burk's Co. at 
Fort Edward as drummer from March 21 
to Oct. 20, 1757; was also in the Revolu- 
tionary War. He is believed to have been 
one of the six men who started to explore 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 29 

the wilds of Kentucky with Daniel Boone, 
May I, 1769, and who set out again for 
Kentucky with their families in 1773, and 
was killed in the battle of Blue Licks, 
Aug. 19, 1782. 

Children b. at Colrain. 

1. Eunice 6, b. April 4, 1769. 

2. Samuel 6, b. June 28, 1772. 

3. Isabel 5, b. m. Moore, and lived in 

Pennsylvania. Had children, Jesse, who 
was captain of a steamboat on the Ohio 
River for several years ; Rachel, and proba- 
bly others. 

4. Samuel 5, b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 23, 

1749. 

5. Mary 5, b. in Colrain, Mass., May 18, 1753, 

m. Robert Archibald ; lived at Salem, N. Y. 

Children. 

Thomas 6, James 6, Robert 6, and proba- 
bly others. 

6. Alice 5 (twin sister to Mary), b. May 18, 

1753, m. Wilham Smith; settled at Put- 
nam, N. Y. 



30 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

■ John 6, who Hved at Joliet, 111., William 6, 
who d. in Washington Co., N. Y., Dar- 
win 6, who lived at Bolton, N. Y., and 
perhaps others. 

7. Rebecca 5, b. at Colrain, Mass., July 26, 

1756, m. Merriman ; lived at Salem, 

N. Y., in 1800 ; removed to " the Ohio." 

Children. 

Lavinia 6, who m. Ray, another daugh- 
ter who m. Emmons, and perhaps 

others. 

8. James 5, b. at Colrain, Jan. 5, 1759. He was 

one of the Minute-men who marched at the 
alarm of Lexington, 1775 ; served at Ticon- 
deroga, 1777, and was one of the soldiers 
who set out for Bennington on August, 
1777. He next appears as a soldier at Sa- 
lem, N. Y. About 1784, swept on by the 
tide of emigration we find him next in Ken- 
tucky, where he bought a large tract of land, 
said to be the site of the present city of Lex- 
ington, paying for it with Continental money ; 
erected a distillery and was doing business 
at good advantage when he was again called 
out in defense of his country during the 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 3 I 

Indian trouble of that region, and was killed 
in Harmer's defeat by the Indians near Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, 1791. Unmarried. 

9. Sarah 5, b. m. Robert Gillis of Salem, 

N. Y. (his 2d wife). 

Children. 

1. Enos 6, b. Jan. 17, 1778. 

2. Samuel 6, b. July 21, 1789. 

3. Betsey 6, b. March 26, 1791. 

4. James 6, b. Oct. 2, 1792. 

5. Thomas 6, b. June 10, 1794. 

6. Hugh 6, b. March 26, 1796. 

10. Robert 5, b. at Colrain 1766. 

Joseph,* (John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in 
Londonderry, N. H., Jan. 17, 1721 ; m. June 
I, 1747, Margaret Thompson who d. subsequent 
to 1770 ; he m. 2d, Hannah Hescock who d. in 
1824 (?). Prior to 1752 he removed from Lon- 
donderry, N. H., to Colrain, Mass., and came 
into possession of lot No. 43, upon which he 
lived. It was located well under the protection 
of Fort Morrison, to which the family resorted in 
time of danger from Indian raids, and where he, 
doubtless, served as defender under Capt. Israel 



32 GENEALOGY OF 



Williams in 1756, and again under Capt. Samuel 
Wells in 1759. He was chosen one of the fence 
viewers in 1756; chosen fence viewer and col- 
lector in 1757 ; in 1760 he was chosen to manage 
the affairs of the town; March, 1768, he was 
chosen assessor but refused to take the oath ; in 
1757 he sold the south half of lot No. 44, to 
Alexander Thompson bounded north by land of 
John Thompson and south by his own land ; in 
1762 he sold land in the second division to 
James Anderson Thompson; March 15, 1770, 
he sold his homestead but the family seem to 
have been living in the vicinity of Colrain until 

1773- 

After this date they seem to be pioneering 

through the southern towns of Vermont and we 
find them at Halifax and Bennington. He served 
in the Revolution vmder Col. Blair, Albany 
County, N. Y. In 1800 they appear in Wash- 
ington County, N. Y. In 1719 Joseph and 
Hannah Stewart deed land to Joseph, 3d. 

The following interesting letters, written by him 
in the 97th and 98th years of his age, have un- 
veiled so much of the Stewart history, the com- 
piler could not refrain from the impulse to append 
them as a fitting memoir of this grand old patri- 
arch, who d. at White Creek, N. Y., Feb. 22, 
1 82 1, a. 100 years, i month and 5 days. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS ^^ 



"White Creek, Aug. the 28, 1818. 

" I have received your letter and I am sorry to 
hear of your sickness. 

" By all accounts of our descent, we are of the 
royal house of the Stewarts. My Father was 
John the eldest son of Robert my Grandfather, 
who was obliged to fly to Ireland when they were 
newly married. My Granny was sent to Edin- 
burgh and he was born there. As far as I can 
learn they belong to the House of White Rose 
and not altogether separated from the House of 
Black Hall. My Grandfather's family's names 
was John and Robert and their sister's name was 
Juleyan, Samuel, the youngest. My Grandfather 
had a good estate in Scotland when he fled from 
it. King William would do nothing about it, nei- 
ther would Queen Anne, but when King George 
came to the crown their Uncle Samuel Stewart, 
by the help of the Duke of Argyle, recovered it. 
That must be the estate you mention. I was 
informed that Uncle Samuel died without issue, 
left no heirs. The way that I came to know of 
our descent was by old Father James Stewart of 
Colrain. You may remember young James, who 
married at last Margaret Anderson your cousin. 
That descent was from White Rose, for he him- 
self belonged to Black Hall. He had a catalogue 
of the house of Stewarts for many hundred years, 
but son Alx carried it away with him to Pennsyl- 
vania. I did not know all this until after my 
father's death. This I knew they belonged to 
the Rose party, by reason of the high esteem they 

3 



34 GENEALOGY OF 



had for Charles the ist who had many good prop- 
erties. 

" My father's eldest son Charles who is your 
uncle, and my Father and your grand Uncle 
Robert would never own the last pretender or 
any of the race by reason of his spurious birth. 
No man dare assail the name of Stewart that was 
if he would not forfeit his life. It gives you the 
reach, James the ist had two sons James and 
Robert, James the 3d had two sons James and 
Robert. This is the whole 1 can give you at 
present. I am afraid you can't read for since I 
got that fall at your house I could never hold a 
pen to write straight. I would beg you would 
acquaint me of your proceedings therefore I rest 

" Your Father 

"To John Stewart. Joseph Stewart." 



The following letter was addressed to a person, 
name unknown, who evidently had written him a 
letter of inquiry. 

"White Creek, March 15, 18 19. 
" Dear Sir, 

"I received yours of the i6th February last, 
informing me that the heirs of Elizabeth Forsyth 
that she married a Stewart. My Father's name 
was John Stewart, the eldest son of Robert Stew- 
art. My mother's name was Elizabeth Forsyth. 
My grandmother's name was Forsyth, her Chris- 
tian name forgot. My great-grandfather's name 
was, as I believe, Walter. My grandfather's name 
by my mother's side was either WiUiam or James, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 35 

which I cannot tell." The above letter seems to 
have been closed abruptly and never received by 
the person addressed, it being a choice relic now 
in the possession of Joseph's descendants. 

Children. . 

1. Susan 5, b. May i8, 17 — d. 1750. 

2. Mary 5, b. July 13, 1750, d. 28th of the 

same month. 

3. Joseph 5, b. at Colrain, Mass., April 6, 1752. 

4. John 5, b. Feb. 14, 1755. 

5. Alexander 5, b. April 10, 1757. 

6. Mary 5, b. June 27, 1759. 

7. Ann 5, b. Sept. 24, 1761. 

8. Jonathan 5, b. May 3, 1765. 

9. Solomon 5, b. 



(C cc 



Fifth Generation. 

William,^ (Charles,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 12, 1733; 
came to Colrain with his father and resided 
on the old homestead, and was prominent and 
active in the affairs of the town, both in peace 
and war, serving as a soldier in the last struggle 
with the French and Indians, in 1755, ^7S^ ^^d 
1757, under Capt. Israel Williams at Colrain and 
Charlemont. He was one of the Minute-men 
who marched on the Lexington Alarm in April, 



^6 GENEALOGY OF 



1 775, under Capt. Hugh McClellan; later served 
as Lieutenant in the militia. He was chosen se- 
lectman in 1769, 1779, 1 78 1, 1783, 1 784 and 1786, 
m. Elizabeth, b. 1738, dau. of Matthew Clark of 
Colrain who was killed by the Indians in 1746. 
In 1770 he with three others bought land lying in 
Bernardston Gore " on a river called Green 
River," and in 1771 was one of the signers of a 
petition to have the Gore annexed to Colrain. 
He sold his old homestead to William Nelson, 
and went to live with his son in the Gore. He 
died about 1804 and like his predecessor " rank 
growth and tangled grass alone crown the rough 
sod beneath which he sleeps," but Nature for- 
gets not his resting place and scatters her spark- 
ling jewels upon the spot, " and no more brilliant 
victories could be achieved than those which 
speak from those old graves, unmarked by human 
hands." 

From the following inventory of his estate we 
catch an imaginary portrait of this brave and 
stately Colonial forefather in his velvet breeches 
and silver knee buckles : 

An Inventory of the Lt. William Stewart, late 
of Colrain, deceased, taken Nov. 19, 1804: 

I Pr tongs and shovel i : SO 

I Pr of And Irons 2:50 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS ^1 



I Trammel 




I : 


Pr of Steelyards 




I : 


I Table 




2 : 


3 Pewter Platters Plates Bason 




3:50 


I Looking glass 




I :50 


4 Reeds 




3: 


I Strait bodied coat 




7:50 


I Pr of Velvet Breeches 




2 : 


I Pr Silver knee buckles 




50 


One Jacket 




I : 


One coper Tea Kettle 




1 : 50 


Two Iron Pots 




3: 


One loom 




3: 


One warming pan 




3: 


3 chairs 




I : 50 


One log chain 




2:50 




$41 :5o 


her 






Eliz X Stewart Admrx. 






mark. 






Clark Chan 


DLER 




Appraisers. 


Jon 


Lyons 





Children. 

1. Thankful 6, b. Dec. 24, 1758. 

2. David 6, b. Feb. 24, 1761. 

3. Sarah 6, b. July 26, 1763. 



3 8 GENEALOGY OF 



4. Jonathan 6, b. Nov, 30, 1765, d. Sept. 10, 

1767. 

5. Mary 6, b. Nov. 5, 1768. 

6. Jonathan 6, b. April 10, 1771. 

7. Ann 6, b. 1781. 

John,^ (Charles,* John/ Robert,^ Walter/) b. 
in Londonderry, N. H., not earlier than 1734, 
came to Colrain probably with his father in 
1748. Here his youthful days were cast in 
those critical times when the white settlers must 
be cautious, guarded and fully alive to any signs 
of Indian craft and cunning intended to lure the 
white man on to death. His every sense had 
become so vigilant for the lurking foe that he 
had grown to be equal to any of their tactics, 
making him one of the bravest and most daring 
Indian fighters of his day. His love for Indian 
conquest was strengthened by adventures like the 
following, in which he came out victor. Taking 
his gun, a precautionary necessity, when a mere 
youth he started out one day to hunt for a 
stray cow. As he proceeded in his search he 
heard the cowbell, but imagined it did not ring 
just as it would if worn by the cow. So se- 
creting himself in the thicket he soon discov- 
ered an Indian who had found the cow or the 
bell she had worn, and was sitting near a spring 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 39 

(afterwards called, from this incident, " Indian 
Spring "), busily engaged in alternately ringing the 
bell and picking his flint, apparently thinking the 
sound of the bell would lure the owner of the cow 
within range of his musket. But Haman-like he 
was preparing the gallows for his own neck. Mak- 
ing an excellent target for young Stewart's marks- 
manship the latter shot the Indian before he was 
aware that the white man was near. Young 
Stewart gave the alarm and a reconnoissance was 
made from the fort, but the body of the Indian 
had been removed by his savage comrades. 

Upon another occasion when in the fort at 
Charlemont some of the garrison, or inmates, 
were sick with the measles and young Stewart was 
sent out to get slippery elm. Sheldon's "His- 
tory of Deerfield," in relating the incident under 
the date of 1756 says, "July 9th. Othnell Taylor 
reports that this day at 4 o'clock John Stewart 
went out about 40 rods from the fort to get some 
bark, heard a noise 5 or 6 rods from him and saw 
an Indian making towards him. He shot at him 
and made for the fort. A party went out and saw 
the blood where he fell and a bullet which he 
dropped out of his mouth." March 25, 1756, he 
enlisted under Capt. Israel Williams, served at 
Charlemont until October i8th; enlisted again 
Oct. 19, 1756, and served until Jan. 20, 1757, at 



40 GENEALOGY OF 

same place ; entered the service Nov. 3, 1758, 
under Capt. John Burk, served four weeks at 
Morrison's Fort, Colrain ; enHsted again Dec. i, 
1758, served until Sept. 24, 1759. Tradition 
claims him as a Revolutionary soldier, but no en- 
listments to that effect have been found. He was 
Lieutenant which title he doubtless acquired in the 
mihtia. He m. Ann, b. 1736, dau. of Michael 
McClellan of Colrain, and about 1760 he located 
and reared himself a home amid Colrain's most 
beautiful and picturesque scenery situated at the 
foothills of a chain of bold heights from whose 
summits a panorama of rare beauty is spread out 
to view, while the old road that leads to this warm 
and sheltered abode parallels a charming little 
romantic stream that comes rushing and tumbling 
down its precipitous and rocky bed, forming now 
and then a miniature Niagara, and singing its 
happy song : 

" I chatter over stony ways, 
In little sharps and trebles ; 
I bubble into eddying bays, 
I babble on the pebbles. , 

I steal by lawns and grassy plots ; 

I slide by hazel covers ; 
I move the sweet forget-me-nots 



That grow for happy lovers. 



>> 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 4I 

Surrounded by this sublimity he settled down 
to a peaceful domestic life, fond of thinking and 
talking of the past glories of his race. February 
14, 1 801, his wife passed on to the better life, and 
the following year he sold his homestead and 
resided with his son, Enos, until about 1807 or 
1808, when he joined his children at Truxton, 
N. Y., where he died August 28, 181 8. 

Children. 

(From a record written by himself in a most 
beautiful hand.) 

1. Robert 6, b. Sept. 29, i76i,d. March i, 1776. 

2. Charles 6, b. July 5, 1763. 

3. Enos 6, b. July 15, 1766. 

4. Mary 6, b. April 13, 1769, d. Jan. 14, 1773. 

5. John 6, b. Sept. 20, 1771, d. June 22, 1772. 

6. Hugh 6, b. June 16, 1773, m. settled in 

Truxton, N. Y., in 1803, ^- ^^ Truxton in 
1857. 

Children. 

1. Matilda 7, b. ? m. James Taggart, d. in 

Alleghany, N. Y. 

2. Hugh 7, b. ? settled in Illinois. 

3. John 7, b. ? d. in Truxton, N. Y. 

4. Anna 7, b. ? d. in Homer, N. Y. 



42 GENEALOGY OF 



5. Lucy 7, b. ? d. in Truxton, N. Y. 

6. Polly 7, b. ? m. James Taggart after the 

death of her sister, Matilda. 

7. Deborah 7, b. ? m. Benjamin Hitchcock. 

7. William 6, b. Feb. 23, 1776, settled in Trux- 
ton in 1803, was living there in 1815; a 
prominent man, d. in Madison Co., Ohio. 

Children. 

1. John 7, b. lived in Milton, Wayne Co., 

Ohio. 

2. Hiram 7, b. lived in Pennsylvania; had 

four sons in the Union Army. 

3. Mary Ann 7, d. young. 

4. Lewis 7, b. physician, m. Melinda b. 

Sept. 25, 1794, dau. of Aaron and Mary 
(Miller) Long of Shelburne, Mass ; she 
m. 2d Orin Long and her son's name was 
changed to Long ; she d. in Pembroke, 
N. Y. 

5. William 7. 

6. Harriet 7. 

7. Caroline 7. 

8. Betsey 7. 

9. Matilda 7. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 43 

8. Anna 6, b. Oct. 15, 1778, m. John Wilson 

of Colrain. 

Children. 

1. Robert 7. 

2. John 7. 

3. Lewis 7, Hved in Madison Co., Ohio. 

4. Mary 7, m. Dr. Grover Gage. 

5. Maria 7, m. Dexter Baldwin, lived in Buf- 

falo, N. Y. 

6. Arad 7. 

7. Jane 7. 

8. Jonathan 7. 

9. Sally Ann 7, m. Daniel R. Carpenter, lived in 

Mich. 

9. Polly 6, b. March 16, 1782, m. in 1802, Dea. 

Billy Trowbridge, b. March 26, 1782. He 
d. in Syracuse, N. Y., May 8, 1855. She 
d. in 1857 or 1858. They resided in Trux- 
ton, N. Y., for many years, where he was a 
prominent man ; served his district in the 
Legislature. 

Children. 

I. Alvah 7, b. Feb. 7, 1803, d. Feb. 1843 > ^^" 
married. 



44 GENEALOGY OF 



2. John 7, b. April 22, 1805, m. Jane Myrick, 

2d Mary T. Butler. He d. in Detroit, 
April 9, 1893. 

3. Levi 7, b. May 8, 1807, m. Sophia E. Hast- 

ings, 2d Sarah L. F. Fisher. He d. at 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 28, 1883. 

4. Samuel 7, b. Sept. 4, 1809, m. Julia Wilson, 

2d Margaret Cunningham. He d. at 
Charleston, S. C. 

5. Hubbard 7, b. Jan. 17, 18 13, m. Sarah H. 

Stiles, 2d Edna T. West. He d. in De- 
troit Feb. 16, 1869. 

6. Smith 7, b. May 12, 18 19, m. Jane F. James, 

2d, Tempe H. Green. He d. in Chicago, 
111. March 30, 1884. 

7. Rhoda Ann 7, b. March 3, 1822, m. Edwin 

H. Babcock. 

8. William L. 7, b. May 3, 1825, d. Sept. 2, 

1883. 

The above taken from Trowbridge Genealogy. 

John,^ (John,^ John,-^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
b. Sept. 22, 1743, in Windham, N. H., m. in 
Windham, Dec. 3 1 , 1 765, Rebecca, dau. of Charles 
Stewart of Colrain. Tradition says he took his 
bride home horseback, but our Rebecca could 
hardly have been bedecked with jewels of silver 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 45 



and jewels of gold and with fine raiment, mounted 
with her servants on gaily caparisoned camels, to 
journey to her future home like the Rebecca of 
old. Neither was she showered with rice and old 
shoes like the modern Rebeccas ; those were too 
valuable commodities to be wasted in such follies. 
But she prepared her wedding outfit with her own 
hands from the raw material, received the parental 
blessing, sprang lightly to the pillion behind her 
future husband and they were off for their New 
Hampshire home over ninety miles away, where 
we find him actively engaged in farming and other 
pursuits of that time. The items entered in his 
memoranda give such a vivid glimpse of his life 
and activities, and the primitive methods and 
rude implements then in use, that I am led to de- 
viate from the prevailing custom and form of 
arrangement in works of this kind, by weaving 
in a few of his running accounts. 

Windham, May 6, 1768, David Hopkins 

debtor to me John Stewart £ s d 
Dr. for one days plowing of myself 

oxen and plow o 4 
Jan. 1769 Dr. for two days hailing 

wood o 6 

June " your horse pasturing o 16 
^' to one and one half days 

moing 036 



46 GENEALOGY OF 



£ S d 

Nov. ye 1 3, Dr. for beef 115 4 

" " forty-one pounds of green 

leather at 2 pence a pound 6 10 

" " fifteen tallow 2 6 

May 1770 Dr. for one days plowing 3 

June " " pasturing your calf 6 

July " " two pigs 6 

Feb. 1 771 Dr. one days work for myself i 6 
April, bringing your hay from widow 

Eastmans 3 6 

April, my oxen and cart one day 2 

Oct. ye 16, hailing one load of boards 3 

" " barrel of lime I 

hay from Mr. Browns i 6 

" one day hailing wood 3 3 
myself and oxen harrowing 

one day 4 
May ye 8, 1772 Doctor Thom Dr. to 
John Stewart for hailing 
one barrel of molasses 

from Haverhill i 3 
Sept. ye 7, Dr for your plank from 

Drakett 9 4 
" ye 23, five pounds and three 

quarters of lamb i 2 

" 23, 14 bushels of ashes 9 4 
May 8, 1770, Jonathan Tenney Dr to 
John Stewart for two calf 

skins 9 9 






LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 47 

S d 
July ye i8, Dr half a cord of bark 6 

Oct. ye 24, hefers hide 611 

Feb. 1 77 1, one coalt skin 2 

May 1 77 1, calf skin 2 

Oct. 1771, heifers hide 2 3 

June 1772, calf skin 6 5 

Windham, Dec. ye 20, 1770, Samuel 
Merill Debtor to me John Stewart for 
165 feet of timber i 

Windham, Feb. ye 6, 11 73, Joseph Smith Debtor 

to me John Stewart for hailing 825 brick from Plastor 

to his home 9 shillings. 

Windham Dec. ye 29, 1772. The selectmen of 

Windham indebted to me John Stewart constable for 

warning James Gillespey an indignant person out of 

town, seven and one pence. 

His arithmetic which he used when teaching 
" the rule of three direct " was of his own com- 
piling. It was written with a quill pen, and bound 
by sewing blank leaves together, and throughout 
its pages examples are wrought where he asserts 
" done by me John Stewart it is wrong." Again 
" done by me John Stewart it is right." It con- 
tains multiplication table, table of time and the 
tables for weight and measure, and short copies 
for pen practice like " John Stewart my hand of 
right'' " Go to school and learn to spel^ and do 



48 GENEALOGY OF 



it well." His books are well sprinkled with odd 
bits of poetry, showing his love for that form of 
composition of which the following is a sample : 

" John Stewart is my name 
An for to write I am not ashamed." 

At the top of one page in his memoranda, is 
written, in a beautiful hand the words : " A new 
song wrote by me John Stewart." The page is 
so defaced and mutilated, the writing cannot be 
deciphered. In his mother's old Bible, printed 
by Richard Watkins, His Majesty's Printer, 
Edinburgh, 1747, is written: 

" Rebecca Stewart is my name, 
Scotland is my nation, 
Windham is my dwelling place 
And Christ is my salvation." 

" Written by John Stewart in the year of our 
Lord Christ 1765, in the 22d year of his age 
April 20, 1765." 

Let us imagine for a moment his wonder and 
surprise, if he could be placed amid the scenes of 
to-day, with our mowing machines, horse rakes, 
tedders and reapers; could he behold our mam- 
moth engines ; flash the electric Hght upon his 
vision, or let him listen to the voice in the tele- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 49 

phone, could we wonder if he should declare that 
we were in league with the infernal regions ? 

Upon the settlement of his father's estate he 
received a double share of the property and a 
share of his father's land in Halifax, Cumberland 
County, west of the Connecticut River (old Cum- 
berland County included what is now Windham 
and Windsor Counties, Vermont). What disposal 
was made of this land does not appear. It prob- 
ably came under the controversy between New 
York and New Hampshire but no evidence has 
been found to show that he fought for his claim. 

He retained the old home at Windham, where 
he continued to reside until the fall of 1773, when 
he removed to Shelburne, Mass., with his family. 
The following account of his journey is a verba- 
tim copy from his old memoranda. 

" Shilburn, October 20th 1773 I John Stew- 
art Left windham the 13th Day of this month 
with my Team and harf of my family and the 
other Part of my family Left it the Day before 
the first night I crossed merimack River and 

Lodged at herods in Dunstable 12 miles 

from thence to wilton at blunts 17 miles 

from thence to petersborough willsons 1 1 miles 
from thence to Dubline Saturday night 

mories 1 1 miles 

from thence to Swansay grahams 16 miles 

4 



50 GENEALOGY OF 



from thence to falltown Sheldins 1 7 miles 

from thence Shelbure to my home 10 miles 

94 

"A true account of my journey wrote by me 
John Stewart." 



An old bottle which they brought in saddle- 
bags is a choice relic of that journey. It has 
been painted by a great-granddaughter, with a 
bit of history on one side and upon the opposite 
side a bunch of cherries, emblematical of that es- 
sential beverage, cherry rum, which had been 
poured from its spacious mouth. 

This journey was made with an ox team and 
tradition says the wife brought her babe of a few 
month's old in her arms on horseback. 

He settled upon the farm which he bought of 
his cousin, Samuel Stewart. 

Here again we must consult his memoranda to 
appreciate the busy life he was leading. 

"Shelburn, Oct. 22, 1773, Abraham Peck debtor 
to me, John Stewart 

s d 

to one day of myself and oxen hailing corn 4 6 

to one day of " " " " wood i 6 
Feb. ye 15, 1774, Dr. for making your barn 

doors I O 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 5I 

S d 

March ye 1 1 for myself and oxen after a 

load of shingle 3 6 

June ye 29, half a day shearing your sheep 2 o 

Oct. Dr. to three days hailing timber for 

your house 5 3 

Nov. Dr. framing your house 5 3 

A part of this old house is still standing and the 
hewed rafters measure 6 by 6 inches in thickness. 

" Shelburne March ye 1 2, 1 774 Alexander Clark 

Dr. to me John Stewart 

s d 

for seven bushels of ashes 3 I 

Dr. for half a days work of myself i 

" " " " " of my plow 6 

April ye 23 one day " " oxen i 4 

June 8 " " " " " 

June 15 to one day mowing of myself 2 

Oct 24 Dr. for one day of myself chopping 

coal wood I 

July 15, 1775 Dr. for three days of my steers 3 

Shelburne Feb ye 25, 1774 Dr. to Alexan- 
der Clark for pig 3 6 

March ye 2, for one day of William mak- 
ing sugar troughs 2 

April ye 21, making a plow 5 

for one bushel of corn 11 i 

half a bushel of oats 8 



52 GENEALOGY OF 



His farm was located on a little meandering 
stream which wound its silver thread in and out 
among the little wooded bluffs, on the summits 
of which often gathered in bold defiance the wild 
beasts of the forest, of which the wolves were the 
most troublesome, often collecting at his door on 
cold winter nights and howling for prey, when he 
would open his door and send his dog after them. 
They would retreat a dozen rods, or to rising 
ground, form into line, and with glaring eyes, 
challenge the canine to battle, when suddenly a 
two ounce bullet from the old flintlock gun would 
put them to flight for the time, while he retired, 
literally the victor in " keeping the wolf from the 
door." Upon another occasion while returning 
from his labors as a carpenter, a pack of wolves 
persistently insisted upon being his close and un- 
welcome traveling companions ; removing his 
leather apron which he had worn while at work, 
he suddenly wheeled about and shook it at them 
with such a loud crackling noise that their animal 
instinct taking this to be a new and deadly mode 
of warfare, they broke ranks and fled. But they 
seemed to owe this old combatant a special grudge 
as the following incident seems to show. One 
intensely dark night he had missed his bridle path 
and became lost in the forest, and being supersti- 
tious to the last degree, suddenly there confronted 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 53 

him eyeballs of fire. Thinking it was Satan that 
had led him into the wilderness to tempt him, he 
addressed him thus : " Thou goest about like a 
roaring lion seeking whom you may devour." 
The eyes vanished and he soon found his way 
home, never doubting that he had met the arch 
enemy of mankind and had vanquished him with 
a passage from Scripture. Doubtless, too, the 
wolves could not brook such indignity of being 
classed with that race, gave up the struggle and 
troubled him no more. 

His farm was the favorite grazing place for 
deer. Flocks of that gentle game were a common 
sight upon the brow of the high round hill near 
his house, and venison was no uncommon luxury 
on his table, while Bruin often came in for his 
share upon the sacrificial altar, while with the 
small game and the large speckled beauties with 
which Stewart brook was well stocked, kept his 
larder furnished with an abundant variety of nu- 
tritious food, for which he had special need with 
his rapidly increasing family. Yet with his own 
large family he kept an apprentice boy whom he 
agreed to instruct as follows. 

" Know all men" by these Presents that I Wil- 
liam Clark of Shelburn in the Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in the County of Hampshire 
the contents of this obligation is this that I the 



54 GENEALOGY OF 



said Clark do bind myself unto John Stewart in 
the Province and County aforesaid to be his true 
and faithful! apprentice and to Serve him for the 
space of Seven years and to be obedient and at 
his Lawful call at all times and not to be absent 
from his masters house or Service without his 
masters Liberty and he is not to Squander away 
his masters goods nor See them wasted without 
taking care of them and giving his master Notice 
of the Same and I the said Stewart do bind my- 
self unto the Said Clark to Learn him my cast of 
reading writing and figuring and my art of Hus- 
bandry and to give him two Suits of Cloaths when 
his time is ended in witness whereof we have here- 
unto set our hands and seals this twelvth day of 
february one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy 
five and in the fourteenth year of his majesties 
Reighn. 

" Signed Sealed and Delivered 

in presence of 

" Daniel Clark, William Clark, 

" Matthew Clark, John Stewart.' 



>> 



But soon the wilderness was made to blossom 
as the roses that lined the mossy green slope in 
front of the house, while within, the old open fire- 
place glowed the brighter, and the pine knots gave 
forth a more cheery light, when an occasional 
festive event occurred as the following recorded 
by his own hand. '' Shelburne Feb. ye. 23, 1775 
this day was married at my house Joseph Mc- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 55 

Known to my sister Lydia Stewart. Witness our 
hands John Stewart, Daniel Clark." 

From another entry in his memoranda it ap- 
pears that the children of the neighborhood as- 
sembled at his house, where they received at his 
hand the rudiments of the meagre education of 
that age. " Shelburne Jan. ye 24, 1775 this day 
took up school and hath three of Alexander Clarks 
children and three of my own and one of Abra- 
ham Pecks." " March 1775 a Debtor account is 
entered against Abraham Peck for schooling his 
son five weeks 3 shillings and 6 pence." 

The following account it will be seen, has an 
interest in various ways. " Shelburne March ye 8, 
1775 John Clark Dr. to me John Stewart for my 
mare to Boston 13 shillings 4 pence." Here his 
accounts show an interruption in his busy life 
among his neighbors. The war cloud which had 
so slowly and surely been gathering burst with 
all its fury upon the land, and his name appears 
upon a muster roll with the rank of sergeant on 
the Lexington Alarm in Capt. Hugh McClellan's 
Co., Col. Samuel Williams' Regt., which marched 
for Lexington April 20, 1775, but being too late 
to participate in the battle, they returned after 
15 J days' service. During this interval of absence, 
his accounts show his neighbors' boys ar6 doing 
his plowing. 



^6 GENEALOGY OF 



In June his account with John Clark is con- 
tinued. " June ye 3 John Clark Dr. to me for 
three days weeding corn 6 shillings." 

"July ye 4 John Clark Dr, one day howing i 
shilling 9 pence." January 27, 1776, he takes up 
school to keep for 8 pounds per month old tenor 
" exclusive of my own children." The spring of 
this year finds him with his company preparing 
for war again. April 22d his name appears 
among a list of officers in the Massachusetts 
Militia chosen by the company as 2d Lieutenant 
in the 2d company, 5th Hampshire County Regt., 
Hugh McClellan Capt., Col. David Field com- 
mander, May 3, 1776. During this service his 
neighbors are supplying his family with flour 
and other necessaries for which a long account is 
rendered October 3, 1776. 

October 15, 1776, John Clark is again debtor 
to him for two days' gathering corn 4 shillings. 
"Oct. ye 19 Dr., for my mare to Worcester, 
9 shillings 8 pence." 

"November ye 16, 1776, account of expenses 
with Alxr Clark from Haverhill. Clark paid 
4 pounds 12 shillings and i pence I paid 2 pounds 
II shillings and 3 pence." February 23, 1777, 
he inlisted with the rank of Lieutenant in Capt. 
Lawrence Kemp's Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for 
service at Ticonderoga; discharged April 10, 1777. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 57 

In the summer of 1777, a terrible and malig- 
nant disease swept over the town and two of his 
children were its victims. This sickness and 
death in his family seems to account for the va- 
cancy in his company which marched to Ben- 
nington August 16, 1777, without a Lieutenant. 
In the midst of this calamity the battle of Benning- 
ton was fought and the roar of the cannon was 
heard here in these distressing days of sickness and 
death. Burgoyne was marching down from the 
North with his army and horde of Indians. This 
agonizing cloud of grief and alarm which brooded 
over this defenseless community seems to have 
paralyzed his pen with utter despair, and the 
year 1777 is passed over as if to erase the scenes of 
those terrible months from his memory ; not an 
entry was made in his book during that year. His 
name again appears with rank of Lieutenant on 
Muster and Pay Roll of Capt. Hugh McClel- 
lan's Co., Col. David Wells' Regt. Enlisted 
Sept. 22, 1777, Discharged Oct. 18, 1777. Again 
his name appears in Capt. John Wells' Co. 
dated Shelburne Nov. 21, 1777. The first entry 
made in his memoranda after this year of fatal- 
ity is Dec. 8, 1778, when he seems to resume 
his old activities. '^ Robert Watson Dr. myself 
and oxen one day hailing wood and building 
your hovel, 8 shillings." 



5.8 GENEALOGY OF 



to hailing you hay 1 2 shillings 

two bushel of potatoes i pound, lo shillings, i pence 

hailing wood 15 shillings 

your loom 1 8 shillings 

moving your goods 10 shillings 

He held his prominence as an officer in the 
militia as two of his old Lieutenant's commission 
papers are still in existence ; one bears the date of 
178 1, the other 1783. Thus, though he has re- 
frained from alluding to his military service, or 
the stirring events enacted during the struggle for 
National Independence, yet the sudden cessation 
of his industries and the gaps in his debtor ac- 
counts against his neighbors during the three 
years following the opening of hostilities, together 
with the intersecting records of his military service, 
from the archives at Boston, prove conclusively 
that he was serving his country, and that he was 
the only one of the name who served from this 
vicinity during the Revolution. One more glance 
at his memoranda before closing its sacred and 
time-worn pages which has afforded me so much 
fascination and instruction. 

*' March ye 7, 1780. Alexander Clarlc debtor 
to me for serving as constable in his stead for the 
north part of the town of Shelburne, 28 bushels 
of wheat." 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 59 

From an old district book we find him active 
to the last in promoting the advance of education. 

He served as highway surveyor and the town 
" voted to allow him two shillings per day in 
summer and one shilling in the faulT The 
town records show that he was selectman in 1806 
and 1807, also tax collector, while his judgment 
was considered sound and trustworthy by his 
townsmen, and we find him serving as committee 
upon questions of moment and interest to the 
town. He was sought to write wills and draw up 
other legal papers. He was remembered by a 
granddaughter as kind and indulgent but a rigid 
Presbyterian and very strict in matters pertaining 
to religion and the observance of the Sabbath, 
which began with him at sunset Saturday eve and 
lasted till Monday morning. He attended 
church at Colrain, and the children soon learned 
it was not safe for them to be caught out at play 
when they saw him returning from church. She 
speaks of him as wearing a queue and cocked hat 
and that he spoke with that broad accent and rich 
toned brogue, which many of the children and 
grandchildren of those early Scotch settlers are 
known to have retained through life. A daughter- 
in-law, who lived to an advanced age, was wont 
to speak of him in terms of highest praise. 

The following is a copy of a letter written by 



6o GENEALOGY OF 



him to his brother Robert, in 1817, two years 
before his death. 

" Shelburne, August ye 4th, 18 17. 

" Dear Brother 

" I received a line from you leting me know 
that you and yours was well I and mine are well 
through the goodness of almighty God in hope 
they will find you enjoying the like blessing. I 
have no news to write you it is a general time of 
health in these parts. I would gladly come and 
see you but I am Destitute of a horse, my old 
mare died last winter and her left colt three years 
old broke her leg in the pasture playing and 
obliged to kill her. Chester is in the state of 
Maryland at the head of the Chesepeake. Clerk 
to a man building a bridge over the Susqehanna he 
hant been home but once this four years I had a 
letter from him Dated last month he was not well 
and thought he should come home if he did not 
get better my kind respects to my old friend John 
Morrison and let him know that if we should not 
see each other in this world I hope we shall meet 
in another and better world where sin and sorrow 
shall be done away, my respects to your wife, 
Abraham and wife and all inquiring friends 

" farewell 

" John Stewart.' 



I) 



Their pioneer life is ended, their trials have 
ceased and their joys are transmitted to the eter- 
nal realm, while their dust reposes side by side 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 6l 

in the old Shelburne cemetery, unforgotten by 
the humble servants of Nature — a wild columbine 
having sprung up and thrives as it bows its mod- 
est head in reverent adoration and keeps its silent 
vigil in the shadow of the ancient headstone, on 
which is the following inscription. 

" In memory of Mrs. Rebecca, wife of Lt. John 
Stewart, who departed this life 23 July, 1815, in 
the 73 d year of her age. 

" Stop passer as you go by 
As you are now so once was I, 
As I am now you soon must be 
Prepare for death and follow me." 

He died January 19,1819, and a nameless grave 
beside his wife points out the resting place of 
Lieut. John Stewart. 

" Though no shaft of pallid marble rears its white and 

ghastly head, 
Telling wanderers on the hilltop of the virtues of 

the dead, 
Yet a lily is his tombstone and a dewdrop pure and 

bright. 
Is the epitaph an angel writes in the stillness of the 

night." 

The old house, too, long years ago yielded to the 
hand of time, the old well with its long sweep and 



62 GENEALOGY OF 



" moss covered bucket," the old orchard, the seeds 
of which were brought from Windham, have dis- 
appeared. The old maples that yielded up their 
sweets and have withstood the storms of nearly 
two centuries have nearly all been felled by the 
woodman's axe. But the furrowed fields, the old 
road leading to the south, the high rock that stood 
in front of the house are still there; the rosy-tinted 
arbutus, too, still inhabits its native hillsides and 
mossy knolls, and lends its sweetness and greets 
us every springtime as it did our forefathers and 
foremothers of yore. And the stately lilies cling- 
ing so tenaciously to life, after resisting the war- 
fare of years to exterminate them, raise their plead- 
ing heads every season and seem to beg for mercy 
and the care our predecessors were wont to give 
them. But the little clump of large crimson peo- 
nies, the first of which came, with other valuables 
from New Hampshire soil, have received more 
favor and attention, and still send forth their ten- 
der shoots with the first smile of spring and thrive 
unmolested ; and Stewart brook continues its 
gentle and melodious ripple as it wends its way 
on its winding and sequestered course, but the big 
speckled beauties no longer inhabit its waters — 
and the Stewarts, where are they ? The broad 
prairies of the West have many of them, but the 
grassy turf of New England has its share. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 6^ 

Among the relics and souvenirs of these old 
people and their pioneer home are an old desk 
which dates back to its removal from Ireland in 
1 71 8; the old flintlock gun carried by Lieutenant 
Stewart in the Revolutionary War and by his father 
in the French and Indian War, and by old papers 
it appears to be the same old gun owned, and 
probably brought, from Ireland by " Proprietor 
John " Stewart. Another choice and highly prized 
memento of " ye olden time " is a cane made and 
labeled as follows : " This cane was made from an 
old apple tree planted by Lieut. John Stewart of 
Shelburne, Mass., in 1773; ^^^ head was made 
from one of his old sugar maples ; the ferrule from 
one his old pewter plates ; the old handmade 
spike in the small end came from an old Colonial 
building erected by the above John Stewart." 
His " ink well " which bears an ancient look ; his 
pewter plate and bread and milk bowl ; an ancient 
work basket, containing steel thimble, steel bowed 
spectacles, and handmade shears of rude pattern, 
all bear marks of ancient usefulness and are 
silent reminders of this old couple. 

FACSIMILE OF HIS AUTOGRAPH. 




64 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

1. Mary 6, b. in Windham, N. H., Oct. 7, 1766, 

m. in Shelburne, Oct. 19, 1794, Ephraim 
Cady. She d. in Colrain 18 13. 

Children. 

Jessie 7, who died in Northfield, Mass. ; one 
child d. in Shelburne, Aug. 26, 1802; one 
d. Aug. 29, 1802 ; one d. Sept. 2, 1802. 

These children died from the epidemic that 
swept through Shelburne at that time. 

2. Rebecca 6, b. in Windham, Dec. 8, 1767, 

unmarried — d. Dec. 25, i860. 

She was known for her eccentricities and her 
piety, the children's saint, and familiarly known 
to the whole town as " Aunt Becky." She was 
efficient at the loom, and sought for far and near 
to do the family weaving, and when she started 
out with her basket on her arm, fine work was sure 
to be the result. Her nimble fingers and the 
swift flying shuttle keeping time to the old Scotch 
airs alternating with exciting stories of her early 
childhood, keeping her audience of children spell- 
bound with wonder and delight. She always wore 
a man's hat ; only once was she ever known to 
wear a bonnet, and then she declared she was 
never so ashamed in her life. She could ride a 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 65 

frisky horse like a trooper, and it was no uncom- 
mon sight to see her ride up to church, crowned 
with her beaver and one of her nieces seated on 
the pilHon behind her. She was an ardent stu- 
dent of the Bible, and always ready to make an 
apt quotation from its sacred pages, her favorite 
passage being, " Though I walk through the valley 
of the shadow of death I will fear no evil." Sons 
were not plentiful in her father's family and among 
her duties at an early age was that of an errand 
boy, and one day her father bade her go to a dis- 
tant pasture and catch a horse. Obediently she 
took the halter and started. She had nearly reached 
her destination, when she caught sight of a huge 
bear sitting on its haunches and curiously watch- 
ing her ; with the sudden fright of the moment 
she screamed, dropped the halter and started for 
home with all possible speed. The bear equally 
alarmed started as rapidly in an opposite direction. 
Another boyish duty, and delight of her life was 
that of fishing, and many a lone ramble did she 
take beside the sparkling waters of Stewart brook 
and bring home a long string of large plump trout. 
Such duties became native and congenial to her 
and through her long, useful life she delighted to 
labor in the field with the husbandmen. She 
would handle the scythe, pitchfork and rake with 
ease, and her old sickle with her initial R. cut in 



66 GENEALOGY OF 



the handle bears marks of great use. It was a 
familiar sight to her neighbors to see her driving 
two yoke of oxen with a load of potatoes for 
Greenfield market. When past eighty and in- 
firmity had laid a heavy hand upon her, she 
would hobble to the woodpile and wield the axe 
with the dexterity of a backwoodsman. Her 
Bible was her constant companion, and fortified 
by its divine promises, death was to her but the 
lifting of the veil and a flight through the pearly 
gates. 

*' Many a dear one's blessing went 
With her beneath the low green tent, 
Whose curtain never outward swings." 

3. Lydia 6, b. in Windham, Dec. 16, 1768, d. 
Dec. 29, 18 18, unmarried. 

She was somewhat eccentric and was a lady of 
considerable means. She was noted for her in- 
dustrious habits and for fine work at the wheel 
and loom. She lived and died at Northfield. 

It may be interesting to later generations to know 
of what a lady's wardrobe consisted 85 years ago, 
and the following is the inventory of her estate. 

I silk bunnit & two caps at 2.00, i black silk 

gound at 4.00 6 00 

I Light Coulored Calico Gound at 1.67, i Blue 
Print Calico at 2.00 3 6y 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 67 

Amount brought forward 9 6^ 
I Black Printed Calico Gound 1.25, i bed flan- 
nel at 3.50 4 75 
I Striped cotton Gound at 1.25, i Linen Do at 

50c I 75 

I Scarlet Cloak 1.67, i Dimity Peticoat 1.25, 

I Do at 70c 3 62 

I Linen Peticoat at 70c, i White Woolen Do 

at 1.25 I 95 

I Black Woolen Shawl 95 c, Checkered Cotton- 
tine 90c I 85 
I Linentine i.oo, four linen and cotton shirts 

3.72, 3 Do at 75c 5 47 

I Red Bandaner Handkerchief at 75 c, i Striped 

Do at 35c I 10 

7 Linen Handkerchiefs at i . 1 7, i blue stamped 

Do at 55c I 72 

I White Spoted cotton Handkerchief 20c, i 

Cambrick Do at i.oo i 20 

I Cotton Shawl at 1.34, Six Pr of Cotton 

Stockings at 4.25 5 59 

I Pr of old Stockings at 33c, i Woolen Great 

Coat at 2.83 3 16 

I Pr of Woolen Stockings at 67c, i Pr of Mo- 

raro Shoes 34c i 01 

I String of Gold Beads at 5.00, i Gold Ring 

at 1.25 6 25 

I gold ear ring at 12c, i silver thimble at 

50c 62 

I Feather bed, Bedding, Bedstead and cord 23 00 



68 GENEALOGY OF 



Amount brought forward 72 71 
I Bedquilt at 2.50, i Do at 2.25, one woolen 

rug 2.00 6 75 

I Pr linen sheets at 3.50, i Do 1.75, i Do at i.oo 6 25 

1 Pr Piller caps 3.00, i table cloth at 1.50 4 50 

2 Towels at 75 c, 2 Do at 50c, two and one 

half yards of Linen cloth 2 17 
Spinning foot wheel at 1.50, one chest of draws 

at 3.00 4 50 
Small chest at 50c, one chair at 34c, one wash 

tub at I2c 96 

I pair of cotton cards, 50 



98 34 



4. Elizabeth 6, b. in Windham, June 6, 1770, 
m. Feb. 23, 1792, Thomas Fowler. 

Children. 

1. John 7, b. Aug. 27, 1793, lived at Brattle- 

boro, Vt., d. a. 82. 

2. Ambrose 7, b. June 7, 1795, drowned in 

Green River April 30, 1807. 

3. Betsey 7, b. Feb. i 2, 1 797, m. Nathan Prindle 

and lived at Northfield ; had seven chil- 
dren. A son was living at South Royalton, 
Vt.j in 1899, and two daughters were living 
at Portland, Oregon. 

4. Elias 7, b. Sept. 26, 1798, went West. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 69 

5. Lewis 7, b. Nov. 20, 1800, m. Climena New- 

ton, seven children. 

6. Oraseville 7, b. Dec. 14, 1806, d. Nov. 10, 

1808. 

7. Thomas 7, b. Sept. 23, i8ii,d. in Missouri. 
Thomas Fowler, the father, d. Oct. 10, 1821. 

She m. 2d James Salsbury, lived at Guilford, Vt., 
and d. Aug. 15, 1827. 

5. Agnes 6, b. in Windham Aug. 4, 1771, m. 

1793, Dr. Daniel Allen of Colrain, and went 
West. The old people say that they had a 
large family of children but no trace of them 
can now be found. 

6. John 6, b. in Windham April 27, 1773, 

brought from Windham in his mother's arms 
on horseback, when he was five months old. 
He succeeded his father on the homestead ; 
m. Charlotte Flagg. 

7. Catherine 6, b. in Shelburne, July 27, 1775, 

m. William Anderson of Colrain, and re- 
moved to Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. 

Children. 

Rebecca,^ Betsey,^ William,^ (who was captain 
of a steamer on Lake Champlain for many years) 
Harvey,^ Catherine,^ Orilla,^ Octavia,^ Eliza*^. 



70 GENEALOGY OF 



8. Margaret 6, b. Oct. i, 1776, d. July 26, 1777. 

9. Clark 6, b. 1777, d. July 31, 1777. 

10. Jane 6, b. Nov. 29, 1778, m. Dec. 31, 1805 

Clark Fowler, removed from Shelburne to 
Halifax, Vt. between 1806 and 1807, and 
were living at Northfield, Mass., in 1809. 
He was a soldier in an artillery Co. from 
Northfield, under Capt. Elijah Mattoon, Jr., 
that started for Boston in Sept. 18 14. 

Children. 

1. Electa 7, b. Nov. 2, 1806. 

2. Julia 7, b. May 3, 1808, m. Roswell Hough- 

ton, d. at N. Adams. 

3. Rebecca 7, b. March 18, 181 1. 

4. Charles 7, b. Nov. 26, 18 13. 

5. William 7, b. Nov. 29, 18 16. 

11. Martha 6, b. May 30, 1780, m. Match i, 

1 803, John Fowler. He was a soldier in an 
artillery Co. from Northfield, with his 
brother Clark in 18 14. She d. in Shel- 
burne Jan. 7, 1836. He is supposed to 
have died in Nashua, N. H. 

Children. 
Lucinda and Martha ; lived in Nashua, N. H. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS "Jl 

12. Infant 6, b. April 22, 1782, d. May 3, 

1782. 

13. Adam 6, b. March 22, 1784, m. Feb. 2, 

1809, Judith, b. May 12, 1787, dau. of 
David and Judith (Nash) Phinney of Shel- 
burne. 

He was a fine scholar, a teacher and a beauti- 
ful penman. The following letter was written by 
him, in a fine hand, while at Kingsbury, N. Y., 
to his parents in Shelburne. 

"Kingsbury, February 22nd, 1808. 

" Worthy Parents, 

" An opportunity having presented itself, ani- 
mated with duty and gratitude, my heart and pen 
join their efforts in composing a few lines for 
your perusal, trusting that you will not severely 
censure what is well meant though its power to 
please should fail. Duty to parents is one of the 
divine injunctions of the Saviour of mankind in 
whose character we see exemplified the strictest 
duty and gratitude to parents while in the days of 
his fiesh. Unmoved by the praise he acquired 
among learned men he returns meekly to the sub- 
jection of a child under those who appeared to be 
his parents ; which indeed is an admirable lesson 
of humility to those who have parents that have 
watched over their helpless infancy and conducted 
them with many a pang to an age at which their 
mind is capable of manly improvement. Believ- 
ing then that as parents you have performed 



72 GENEALOGY OF 

your duty toward me as a child I feel myself 
bound by the law of nature to return as far as in 
me lies the vast debt of gratitude which I owe to 
you for the unwearied pains you have bestowed 
upon me in taking care of me when I was unable 
to provide for myself, and instructing me in the 
principles of virtue and religion without which no 
person can profess happiness either in this world 
or that which is to come, and for making out 
to me a way wherein I might walk and shun 
many of those vices into which children are 
naturally led and have no parents to walk before 
them and instruct them, or if they should have 
they will so walk as to impart no light to 
them and let them pursue the path that leads 
to destruction rather than the one that leads 
to happiness. But if I should be one of 
those who choose the path to destruction I 
shall be left without excuse and can never say 
that if my parents* had performed their duty to- 
wards me I should not have been thus miserable. 
I can neither impute it to my parents neglect of 
duty nor to any scantiness of the blood of a Sav- 
iour but if I am miserable my condemnation will 
be just. But I hope by the grace of Almighty 
God I shall be enabled to choose the better part 
which shall not be taken from me. Would time 
permit, a sheet of paper would not contain all I 
should write but I must soon draw to a close 
after informing you of my health which is some- 
what impaired by a pain in my right side which 
is sometimes so severe as to deprive me of sleep. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 73 

I have not seen Abraham since John Fowler left 
this place, but I heard from him not long since 
and he was quite lame but I did not hear the 
cause of his lameness. Please to write to me the 
first opportunity if no opportunity presents itself 
write by the mail. May the God of nature, of 
providence and of grace bestow upon you his 
blessings in such a manner as that you may enjoy 
happiness in this world (while you stay in it) and 
the reward of a good life in the world to come 
which is the sincere wish of your affectionate and 
dutiful son 

" Adam Stewart. 
"John & Rebekah Stewart." 

" N. B. Please to present my compliments to all 
inquiries without discrimination." 

One child, d. Dec. 3, 18 10. 

He d. in Shelburne June 22, 1 8 1 9. His widow 
went to Cazenovia, N. Y., the same year and m. 
there in 1822 Lorin Loomis. She d. in Caze- 
novia Feb. 15, 1884, nearly 97 years old. 

Robert,-^ (John,* John,^ Robert,- Walter,^) b. 
in Windham, N. H., Sept. 15, 1748. Three 
hundred and fourteen acres of his father's land 
was laid off to him, in Halifax, Cumberland 
County, west of Connecticut River, now Windham 
County, Vt. He was a soldier and an ardent 
patriot during the Revolution. At the time of 



74 GENEALOGY OF 



enlistment he was a resident of Cambridge, Mass. 
Serving as first Lieutenant in Capt. John Calef's 
Co., N. H. troops his name appearing on a re- 
turn of the company, dated at Great Island, Pis- 
cataqua Harbor, November 5, 1775, enlisted 
June, 1775, l^^gth of service six months. En- 
listed January i, 1776, private, John Wood, Capt. 
Paul D. Sargent, Col. length of service one year. 
Enlisted February 11, 1777, private. From the 
History of Windham is the following : " There 
is enlisted out of Windham on May 8, 1779, 
Robert Stewart in the Continental Army to serve 
for three years." In October of this year he 
participated in the short but decisive battle of 
Saratoga. He served as ensign in Capt. Ben- 
jamin Whittier's Co., Col. Jacob Gale's N. Y. 
regiment, his name appearing upon the pay roll 
of this company, dated, Exeter, November 4, 1 778, 
which joined the Continental Army on Rhode Is- 
land. He served his country faithfully and was 
one of the earliest pensioners. 

He m. Sarah Woodward of Halifax, Vt. The 
Woodwards were early settlers there, some of 
which settled in Shelburne. He m. 2d Sarah 
Smith of Salem, N. H. He was for a short time, 
early in 1800, a resident of Shelburne and owned 
land in Heath but never resided there and about 
1805 he removed to Salem, N. H., where he spent 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 75 

the remainder of his life. No one knows the date 
of his death or where his dust reposes. 

The following is a copy of Robert Stewart's bill 
of sale : 

" Know all men by these Presents that I Robart 
Stewart of Shelburne in the County of Hampshire 
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, in 
Consideration of the Sum of twenty-three Pounds, 
three Shillings, Lawful Money, to me in hand 
Paid by John Stewart of Shelburne in the Said 
County, Gent, whereof I do acknowledge the 
Rec't and myself therewith fully Satisfied, have 
Bargained, Sold, Set over and delivered, and by 
these Presents in plain and open Market according 
to the Due form of Law in that case made and Pro- 
vided, do Bargain Set over and Deliver unto the 
said John Stewart, one Brown Mare at twelve 
Pounds, one Cow at Six pounds together with her 
young Calf, of which Particulars I have given him 
the Said John Stewart an Inventory Subscribed 
with my own Hand Bearing date with these Pres- 
ents the Said creatures to Have and to hold to the 
Property use and Behoof of him, the Said John 
Stewart, his heirs and assigns forever, and I the 
Said Robart Stewart for my Self my heirs executors 
and administrators do grant the Said Bargained 
Premises unto the Said John Stewart, his heirs and 
assigns, against all and all manner of persons 
whatsoever to warrent Secure and Defend by these 
Presents, Provided Nevertheless that if I the Said 
Robart Stewart my heirs Executors Administra- 



76 GENEALOGY OF 

tors or assigns or any of them Shall well and 
truely pay or Cause to be paid unto the Said John 
Stewart, his heirs or assigns the sum of twenty- 
three pounds three Shillings, with Lawful Interest 
by the first Day of february next ensuing for the 
Redemption of the above Bargained Premises, 
than the present writing to be void and of none 
effect but on failure to remain in full force and 
virtue in witness whereof with the Delivery of the 
above mentioned Creatures I have hereunto Set 
m.y hand and Seal this Nineteenth day of february 
one thousand eight hundred and two. 

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presents of 

Robert Wilson. 

Samuel Severance. 

RoBART Stewart. 

Children, b. in Windham, N. H. 

1. ^Rebecca 6, b. Oct. 16, 1782, d. in Shelburne, 
)Mass., March 4, 1803. 

2. j Sarah 6, b. Oct. 16, 1782, drowned in a well 
(at Windham, July 31, 1787. 

3. Abraham W. 6, b. Aug. 4, 1786. 

John,^ (see Memoir of Capt. John Stewart, 
p. 165) (Samuel,"* John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. at 
Londonderry, N. H, Sept. 12, 1745, m. March 
12, 1772, Huldah, dau. of Elnathan Hubbell of 
Bennington. It is thought by some that he was 
a son of James, whose widow is said to have 
married Samuel the brother of James, and that at 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 77 

the age of five years he came to Colrain, Mass., to 
live with his uncle Samuel. He enlisted April 28, 
1759 — at the age of 13 — served until Septem- 
ber 24th as one of the garrison at Charlemont ; 
re-enlisted for service in Canada, joining General 
Amherst's forces at Crown Point in the fall of 
1759, and he was present at the taking of Mon- 
treal in 1760. No better account of his service 
can be found than Sergeant Samuel Merriman's 
journal kept by himself, for a part of the time, 
from October 7, 1759, to September 8, 1760, 
which we get from Sheldon's History of Deer- 
field : 

" Campt crown point, Oct. 26, 1759. 

" friday this day we set out to clean a rode to 
No. 4, we crost the Lake about Sun set & then 
campt. 

" Satterday the 27 we camp east side of y® Lak 
upon Mager Hawks Rode ; this day we set out 
to clear y® Rode and cleared as far as two mile 
Brook and we campt. Nothing extraordinary 
haped this Day. 

" Sabath October y® 28, 1759 this day we cleared 
4 miles and then campt. 

"Monday, October 29, 1759, this day we 
marched 2 miles further and then came to a 
stream and made a brigue over and then marched 
2 miles further and then came to a nother large 
stream and there we campt &c. 



78 GENEALOGY OF 



*' Tuesday, October ye 30, 1 759. We maid ye 
great brigue and march 3 miles & then campt. 

October ye 31, 1759, then march 2 miles & 
then we eat dinner." 

After the close of the war he removed from 
Colrain to Bennington, Vt., and became a mem- 
ber of the Green Mountain Corps, which de- 
fended the Vermont people from the New York- 
ers, who claimed that region under grants, and at 
the time of his death, he was the last but one of 
that little band. 

The following extract from the life of Ethan 
Allen and the Green Mountain Heroes of '76, 
by Henry W. DePuy, evidently refers to him. 

" In October, 1769 a number of the inhabitants 
of Bennington were assembled upon the farm of 
James Breckenridge, in the western part of the 
town, for the purpose of assisting him in harvest- 
ing his corn. While they were thus employed, a 
number of surveyors came upon the farm, and ap- 
peared to be running a line across it. Mr. Breck- 
enridge (James Breckenridge was a former resi- 
dent of Colrain, Mass., and lived next lot to the 
Stewarts) and Mr. Samuel Robinson left their 
work, and entered into conversation with them. 
The surveyors declared they were acting under 
the authority of the State of New York. Mr. 
Breckenridge and Mr. Robinson forbade their 
proceeding further, stating, at the same time, that 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 79 

It was not their intention to use violence, but 
merely to protest against the proceeding, for the 
purpose of preserving their legal rights. Upon 
this they petitioned the governor and council of 
New York stating that the commissioners and sur- 
veyors had been ' violently opposed by sundry 
persons, and prevented by their threats from ex- 
ecuting the trusts reposed in them.' Upon this 
a proclamation was issued by the governor ' for 
apprehending and securing the principals and 
ringleaders ; ' and at the following January term 
of court at Albany, several persons who had been 
present were indicted as rioters, and among them 
was John Stewart. None of them, however, were 
arrested or brought to trial." 

Children. 

I. Cynthia 6, b. at Bennington, Vt., Dec. 25, 

1772. 

From her letters to her parents and brothers 
as well as theirs to her and each other, we get 
glimpses of an affectionate family life, and many 
references occur enabling us to place the relatives 
of the father and mother. It is a matter of re- 
gret that so few of these Stewart letters have 
been preserved. Cynthia had a school friend, 
Fannie Hine, who was a lifelong correspondent, 
and it is a curious feeling one has in reading this 
complete correspondence of a lifetime. Bright, 
facetious letters for the greater part were these 



8o GENEALOGY OF 



epistles of Fannie Hine, whose home seems to 
have been at Fishkill Village, N. Y. Cynthia 
seems to have been a lady of rare accomplish- 
ments for those days. The following is an ex- 
tract from a letter written by her from Salem, 
N. Y., to her parents while they were living at 
Burlington, N. Y. : 

" Salem, N. Y., 226. June, 1800. 
" Houn*^ Parents. ... I went this day week 
to Uncle Rob*'^ as Noble had a special business 
to Jos. Stewarts. I staid but half an hour there 
and returned to Archibalds to see my Grand 
Mother, who enjoys remarkable good health and 
whose tender affection for me & all the family 
merits a return of the warmest gratitude. She 

indeed is a most affectionate Old Woman and ap- 
pears to live quite happy at Merimans. . . . 
Meriman is going to move to the Ohio next fall. 
. . . Uncle Samuel Stewart was here last Wednes- 
day, and he really looks like hard times and like 
an old man. He came all the way from Bristol 
to purchase corn & had not found a bushel. . . . 
" Your Dutiful & Affectionate Daughter, 

" Cynthia Stewart." 

Cynthia never married. She was engaged to a 
gentleman named Swift, who was drowned before 
the day set for the marriage. She d. at Middle- 
bury, Vt., March 17, 1857. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 8 I 

2. Aaron 6, b. at Bennington, Vt., March 22, 

1775. (See Memoir, p. 172). 

3. Noble 6, b. at Pawlet, Vt., April 3, 1777. 

He had real business ability and before his 
untimely end had established a very exten- 
sive business and was rapidly acquiring a 
fortune. The property which he left re- 
habilitated the fortunes of the family which 
had suffered from various causes dating from 
the destruction of Captain Stewart's Inn at 
Ticonderoga. Noble moreover was a man 
of high principle and from his letters one 
can see that he always acted from high mo- 
tives. He possessed a magnificent voice 
and his singing made a sensation. Very old 
men, whose memories went back to his time, 
told his nephew, Ex-Governor Stewart, that 
for purity and beauty they had never heard 
a voice that approached it. He died un- 
married at Middlebury, Vt., May 17, 18 14, 
from an attack of typhoid fever. 

4. Ira 6, b. at Pawlet, Vt., July 15, 1779. 

5. John 6, b. at Ticonderoga, N. Y., March 10, 

1785. From his letters we can judge that 
he was a boy of splendid promise. He died 
suddenly at Manchester, Vt., June 14, 
1802. 
6 



82 GENEALOGY OF 



Samuel/ (Samuel/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
b. in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 23, 1749, came 
to Colrain with the family when an infant. He 
was a resident of Shelburne prior to 1773, settling 
there not far from 1770 and was first occupant of 
lot No. ^^, which was divided by quite a stream, 
afterward called Stewart Brook, and the following 
poem was written in commemoration. 

Stewart Brook. 

, 1770. 

Upon Bel Eden's wind-kissed height. 

Just over in Colrain, 
A rather high and hilly town, 

But not unknown to fame, 

A little streamlet gushes forth 

Fresh, pure, from crystal fountains, 

And gaily gambols down the hills 
And through the distant mountains. 

The graceful deer from out the wood 

Feed on its grassy brink, 
The muskrat scampers up the bank 

Pursued by gamey mink. 

Fierce panthers scream along its course, 

The wolves reply with howls. 
The bears on mischief ever bent 

Re-echo back with growls. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 83 

Upon a meadow near this brook, ' 

Mid Nature's solitude, 
Young Stewart built a cabin strong, 

A building small and rude. 

Here in the forest's deep recess. 

His axe rings sharp and clear. 
Swung by the cordy sinews of 

This sturdy pioneer. 

1904. 

How changed the scene wild nature tamed 

Along this silvery stream, 
The forest's giant trees are gone 

The past seems but a dream. 

White clover blossoms on the hills, 

Cows graze upon the plain 
And on the nearby hillside slopes 

Are fields of grass and grain. 

The wild rose opes its petals sweet, 

The last wild flower of spring. 
The golden rod's bright yellow plume 

Nods to the wild wind's wing. 

The lily lifts its painted cup 

Along these flower-strewn banks, 
The gentian too of heavenly blue 

Springs up in stately ranks. 



84 GENEALOGY OF 



Old maples stand on either shore, 

Their branches softly meet, 
Neath which these joyous waters flow, 

With music glad and sweet. 

Rush onward in thy course, sweet brook, 

Swift through the tangled sod. 
And in the sweetest melody 

Sing praises to thy God. 

— B. F. S. 

He was a soldier in the Revolution and tradi- 
tion says he was at one time taken prisoner in that 
war. His name appears first on a muster roll in 
Capt. Hugh McClellan's Co., Col. Samuel Wil- 
liams's Regt. which marched for Boston on the Lex- 
ington Alarm ; re-enlisted while there, May i, 
1 775, in Capt. Robert Oliver's Co., Col. Ephraim 
Dolittle's Regt. ; served eight months, his name 
appearing on a company returned of the above 
regiment dated Winter Hill, Oct. 6, 1775; his 
name also appearing among the signatures to an 
order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money 
due for the eight months' service in 1775 in the 
above company and regiment dated Winter Hill 
Dec. 23, 1775. From Hemenway's Vermont 
Historical Gazetteer we find he fought at Bunker 
Hill, went with Arnold in his detachment that 
penetrated the wilderness by the way of Kennebec 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 85 

River. Charles Knowles Bolton in speaking of 
that expedition in " The Private Soldier under 
Washington " says ; " The men many a night lay 
down without food. Several became very weak 
from hunger, and at last a captain gave them his 
pet dog. The soldiers carried the poor creature 
away and ate every part of his flesh, not excepting 
his entrails. Two other dogs were eaten the same 
day. When exposure and hunger had prepared 
the way, a fourth or a third of the men in some of 
the regiments died of smallpox. A day's march 
was frequently as little as ten miles." After the 
assault on Quebec and the fall of Montgomery, 
his term of service having expired, he returned 
home. (The old tinder-box which he carried at 
Quebec is a valued relic in the possession of his 
descendants.) February 23, 1777, he enlisted with 
the rank of sergeant in Capt. Lawrence Kemp's 
Co., Col. Leonard's Regt. for service at Ticonde- 
roga ; discharged April 10, 1777. He removed 
from Colrain to Salem, N. Y., from there to White- 
hall, and from there to Bristol, Vt., where he 
continued to reside until 18 16. He was one of 
the first board of selectmen at Bristol, and was a 
bold and resolute man. In the fall of 1816 he 
set out to seek a better fortune in Ohio, locating 
at Royalton in that state. He was among the 
earliest applicants for a pension but passed away 



86 GENEALOGY OF 



before receiving it. He m. Elizabeth Abbott of 
Pawlet, Vt., b. in Salisbury, Conn., Oct. 21, 1759. 
He d. at Royalton Aug. 28, 1827, and was buried 
with military honors in recognition of his Revolu- 
tionary service. His wife survived him nearly 
nine years. Like her husband she was a born 
pioneer and possessed an equal amount of daring 
and resolution for which the following incident, 
related by a granddaughter, gives her credit. 
During the Revolution and at the time of the 
battle of Bennington in 1777, her parents were 
living near the battlefield; her father and brothers 
had gone to the scene of action. It was in the 
days of New England slavery, and her father 
owned a slave. Some of the family were sick with 
the measles, but hearing the roar of the terrible 
conflict, they sought safety in flight. Yoking the 
oxen hastily and putting a few valuables in the 
cart, she bade the slave drive the oxen while she 
harnessed the horses ; placed a bed in the wagon, 
helped her feeble mother and sick sister in and 
they were off. As they came in sight of the rag- 
ing battle, their path diverged and led them down 
into a deep, marshy gutter, which held the wheels 
of the cart fast in the mud. The slave, angry be- 
cause he had not been allowed to drive the horses, 
refused to help his young mistress in this trying 
predicament. Dauntless, she alighted, and seiz- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 87 

ing some rails near by she laid them pontoon 
fashion, hitched the horses in front of the oxen, 
and with one long, hard pull they were extricated 
and on their way to safety. She d. at Royalton, 
Ohio, Feb. 4, 1836. 

Children. 

1. Chauncy 6, d. in Royalton, Ohio, leaving two 

sons Daniel and Henry. 

2. Phebe 6, m. Isaac Isham of Royalton, Ohio, 

She d. there aged 90 ; no children. 

3. Eunice 6, m. — Vaughan of Royalton, Ohio. 

Children. 
Joel 7, Betsey 7, Harriet 7, Samuel 7. 

4. Polly 6, b. April 4, 1789, the first white child 

born in Bristol, Vt., m. March 22, 1808, 
Jehial Saxton. She survived her husband 
and d. in Cleveland Ohio, July 24, 
1873. Th^ following is from the pen 
of a daughter. " Jehial Saxton resided 
at Bristol until the fall of 1818, when 
he with his family removed to Newburgh, 
Ohio, being six weeks on the road. He 
bought a farm five miles from Cleveland ; 
cleared enough of it to build a log house, win- 
dows without glass. Deer, with other wild 



88 GENEALOGY OF 



game and cornmeal was their principal food 
until land could be cleared and crops gotten 
in. His family at this time consisted of five 
children; there were no schools, but he with 
two other neighbors built a log schoolhouse, 
and the three hired and boarded the teacher 
among them. Mrs. Saxton had inherited 
her father's resolution to a marked degree 
and it was through her hopefulness and help- 
fulness that her husband was enabled to pass 
through those discouraging years of pioneer 
life. She was a born pioneer ; it was dif- 
ferent with her husband, he had left public 
life and probably a career behind him, to 
battle with the isolated life in the woods of 
what was then the western reserve. An in- 
cident of those early days my mother has 
told us children. It was this. She with her 
two neighbors were spending one afternoon 
together. Each of the three women had a 
child in arms. Suddenly they heard the 
squealing of the only pig in the neighbor- 
hood. They knew that the pig's assailant 
must be a bear, and at once all three with a 
child in arms sallied out to the rescue. It 
would never do to let the bear have the pig, 
consequently they chased after his bearship 
into the thick underbrush through which 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 89 

they could not see, but led by the squealing 
they at last came upon the dead pig which 
the bear had dropped while fleeing from the 
three screaming women." 

Children. 

1. Sally 7, b. Jan. 19, 1809, d. July 22, 1831. 

2. Hannah 7, b. Nov. 30, 18 10, d. April 5, 1885. 

3. Clinton 7, b. July 14, i8i2,d. Jan. 30, 1895. 

4. Harriet M. 7,b. March 14, i8i4,d. March 11, 

1831. 

5. Infant 7. 

6. Anson 7, b. Oct. 26, 1817, d. July 19, 1833. 

All the above children b. in Bristol, Vt. 

7. Betsey 7, b. Feb. 25, 1819, d. Nov. 17, 1837. 

8. Phebe 7, b. Sept. 7, 1821, d. Oct. 29, 1844. 

9. Elmina 7, b. Aug. 11, 1823, d. Feb. 1900. 

10. Dewitt 7, b. April 10, 1825, d. Nov. 10, 

1853- 

11. Cynthia 7, b. Jan. i, 1827. 

12. Mary 7, b. March 30, 1828. A resident of 

Cleveland in 1900. 

5. John 6, b. 1791- 

6. Samuel 6, b. July 6, 1796. 



90 GENEALOGY OF 



Robert/ (Samuel/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
b. in Colrain, Mass., 1765, was an early settler of 
Salem, N. Y. The history of Washington 
County states that he settled three miles south of 
Salem Centre. It seems that sometime during 
the period of the Revolution he served as a soldier. 
He m. Elizabeth Huggins who d. May 2, 18 19, 
in the fiftieth year of her age. A pious woman, 
an affectionate wife and a tender mother. Two 
old letters, written by him, have revealed so much 
that is sacred and interesting to this history, that 
they claim a place here. The first to his brother 
Samuel of Royalton, Ohio, gives evidence of his 
excellent Christian character, and an important 
clew relative to the family. Efforts for several 
years had been in progress to recover the estate of 
his brother James, who fell in battle during an 
engagement with the Indians near Fort Wayne, 
about 1 79 1, and it seems the following letter was 
written in reply to one received in reference to 
their claims. 

"Salem, 27 Feb. 1821. 

" Dear Brother and Sister. 

" It is with great satisfaction that I have the 
pleasure of addressing a few lines to you, to in- 
form you of our welfare which I have longed 
an opportunity to do through your neglect, as I 
knew not where to find you, as you have never 
thought worth while to write to me, to let me 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 9I 

know where you was, and I thought very hard of 
it, but it is a great satisfaction that our heavenly 
parent will not forget or forsake us unless we 
first forsake him, therefore I trust he will be my 
support and guide me until death and there be 
my everlasting portion forever. I received yours 
of the 6th which was a great satisfaction to us all 
to hear of your welfare but it would serve a great 
deal more if you had given us an account of all 
your situation and how far you are from brother 
Moore, as you inform me you was there last week, 
and as you have broke the ice in three or four 
years, I and some of the family will not let it 
freeze again, so that we may have a communication 
by letter which is a great satisfaction to me. You 
mentioned in your letter that you had heard of 
the death of my dear companion ; true she de- 
parted this life on the 2d of May 1819, with only 
nine days sickness, she died with inflamation of 
the head, she is gone and we must all follow sooner 
or later the Lord only knows when. I suppose 
I am contented to submit to his will, for blessed 
be his will in heaven let it be done on earth. I 
have seven children, two of them are married, the 
others live with me and they are all well. I was 
at brother Archibalds not long since, they were 
all well, it is a great time of health in this coun- 
try, though there is a vast many old people 
about here, has just paid the debt of heaven 
this year. Uncle Joseph Stewart died last week, 
and was 100 years old 17th last Jan. 

" I here send you a power of attorney as you re- 



92 GENEALOGY OF 



quested me. I cant add any more on this sheet 
without I infringe on the power. I wish you to 
write give a full description of the country, my 
children all join me in my love to you all, 
" I remain your loving brother till death, 
" Mr. Samuel Stewart Robert Stewart. 
" Royalton, 

" Ohio." 

Omitting the formal part of the power of at- 
torney, the following has been invaluable in trac- 
ing this line. 

" For me and in my name to ask, demand, sue 
for, recover and receive of and from the legal 
representatives of my Brother James Stewart 
deceased, all such sums of money or other things 
as I may be entitled to as an heir to the estate of 
James Stewart deceased, of the state of Kentucky 
who was killed in Harmar's Defeat by the In- 
dians." 

The power of attorney is signed Robert Stew- 
art and sworn to before Anthony Blanchard, First 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
County of Washington, State of New York, on 
the 27th day of February, 1821. 

The second letter written to his nephew, Ira 
Stewart, of Middlebury, Vt., has also been of 
inestimable value. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 93 

" Salem, N. Y., Feby. 22d, 1837. 

" Dear Sir — 

" I received yours of the 8th, respecting your 
father's services in the revolutionary war which I 
know nothing about only by hearsay as I was 
not in this part of the country at the time of his 
service and after I came here I have heard people 
say that he was a Sergeant in Capt. McCracken's 
Company and that is all I know about it and 
there is not one living as 1 know of that was 
with him. 1 have tried to find out some one 
but I cant and this is all I know of the busi- 
ness. 

" Our friends and family are all well. 1 was up 
to see your aunt Elice (Alice ?) last week and 
found her well, though very much bowed down. 
I rec^ a letter last week from Ohio ; our friends 
there are all well. Your aunt Isabel Moor is 
well ; her husband is dead. Aunt Betty, Sam- 
uel's widow died about a year ago. Give my 
respects to your family and tell your mother that 
I intended to come and see her all this winter 
but my health is not as good as it has been there- 
fore I think that I shall not go. I ad no more 
but remain your affectionate unkle Till Death. 

" Ira Stewart, Robert Stewart. 

" Middlebury." 

He d. March i, 1847, ^^ ^^^ eighty-first year 
of his age. 

The following is copied from his headstone 
in Salem : 



94 GENEALOGY OF 



" The Christian, patriot, and friend 
Such was his hfe, and such his end. 
Life's end achieved, and full of years 
He left for heaven this vale of tears." 

Children b. in Salem. 

1. James 6. 

2. Robert 6, a merchant in Greenwich, N. Y., d. 

unmarried in Salem. 

3. William 6, settled near the old homestead and 

d. there. 

4. Mary 6, b. March 2, 1789. 

5. Elizabeth 6, m. Chester Billings ; five chil- 

dren : Samuel 7, Robert 7, William 7, 

Ellen 7, and Caroline 7, b. 1833, m. 

Austin. 

6. Samuel 6, d. in Salem. 

7. Isabel 6, m. John Huggins. 

It has been a matter of profound regret that a 
more full record of his descendants at Salem were 
not furnished as they seem to have been numer- 
ous there. 

" The Old White Church," a pamphlet pub- 
lished in 1897, the centennial year of the United 
Presbyterian Church of Salem, gives a list of the 
descendants of Robert Stewart, who have wor- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 95 

shiped in that church, of which the following is a 
copy. 

Mrs. Caroline Billings Austin. Lucretia Bell. 

George. Elizabeth. 

Bert. Joseph. 

(Mrs. Julia Bain Austin.) Irving, 

Bessie. Henry Clark. 
Elsie. (Mrs. Cornelia Wright Clark.) 

Mrs. Ella Austin McAllister - Will. 

(Robert McAllister Jr.) Mrs. Mary Clark Barnett. 

Earl. Mrs. Cornelia Clark Aiken. 

Mrs. Carrie Austin Closh. Alvah W. 

Lewis Austin. Charles. 

(Mrs. Fannie Glenholm Austin.) Mrs. C. W. Wolff. 

Nettie. Mrs. Libbie Wolff Perkins. 

Alfred Austin. (Robert Perkins.) 

(Mrs. Nettie Glenholm Austin.) Harold. 

John M. Clark, Ermine. 

(Mrs. Mary Guernsey Clark.) Baby. 

Joseph/ (Joseph/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
b. in Colrain, Mass., April 6, 1752, m. Oct. 3, 
1774, Rosana Harmon, b. May 17, 1754, and d. 
April 25, 1 8 13. He settled in Halifax, Vt., and 
we find him also at Bennington, Vt. He re- 
moved to the State of New York and settled on 
a farm, where, it is said, the apples that fell from 
the trees rolled down into Vermont. He was a 
soldier in the Revolution, serving with his father 
in Col. Blair's Reg't, Albany Co., State of New 
York troops, and was granted land bounty for his 
service. 



96 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

I. Eunice 6, b. Feb. 26, 1776, m. Horace Bar- 
nam. 

Their daughter, Rosana A. 7, b. 18 17, was a 
graduate of Mrs. Willard's school for young ladies, 
at Troy, N. Y., which was so noted in the early 
years of the last century. She m. Abel Wilder, a 
physician. 

1. Joseph 6, b. March 14, 1778, m. Sarah Dun- 
ton. 
Their son, Joseph Dunton 7, b. in Hartford, 
N. Y., 181 1, was a physician in Washington, 
D. C, and surgeon in the United States Army. 
Under the belief that a large estate awaited the 
Stewart heirs in this country, he went to Eng- 
land and made a study of the family. 

3. Reuben 6, b. April 9, 1780. He was at one 
time a resident of Watertown, Mass., m. a 
daughter of William Johnson at Hartford, 
N. Y., Reuben Stewart d. in Delaware, Ohio 
Aug. 12, 1838. 

Children. 
Sarah 7, Minerva 7, Austin 7. 

4. Rosana 6, b. July i, 1782, m. John Allen. 

5. David 6, b. Jan. 20, 1784. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 97 

6. Margaret 6,* b. April 8, 1786, m. Asa Kellogg. 

7. Mary 6, b. Feb. 20, 1788. 

8. Silvester 6, b. March 7, 1790. 

9. Annie 6, b. May 15, 1794, m. Asa Kellogg, 

(his second wife.) 
10. Enoc 6, b. June 18, 1797. 

Possibly errors may be found in the above rec- 
ord of the children of Joseph 5, but an urgent 
appeal to his descendants failed to call forth a re- 
sponse. 

John,^ (Joseph,^ John/ Robert,^ Walter/) b. in 
Colrain, Mass., Feb. 14, 1755 ; went to Vermont 
with his parents ; m. Feb. 22, 1777, Susan Smith, 
b. March 14, 1758. He was a Revolutionary 
soldier, serving for two years as corporal with the 
Vermont troops, part of the time under Capt. 
Hopkins and Col. Seth Warner. He served in 
the War of 18 12 and was promoted from the va- 
rious degrees of rank to that of colonel. He 
settled in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y. ; 
d. Aug. 1 83 1. His wife received a pension until 
her death in 1841. 

Children. 
I. Chauncy 6, b. April 15, 1781, m. and left one 

* See Addenda, Stewart-Kellogg, p, 205. 

7 



98 GENEALOGY OF 



son, Sidney, b. about 1805 ; m. Alvina Hop- 
kins in 1834, one son, George S., b. 1835. 
Alvina d. in Kingsbury. Sidney d. in Wis- 
consin. 

2. Rhoda 6, b. Feb. 15, 1784; m. Daniel W. 

Wing of Fort Edward, where he d. She d. 
same place, Feb. 8, 1823. 

Children. 

1. Chauncy 7 4. Caroline 7 

2. Smith 7 5. Susan 7 

3. Halsey R. 7 

3. Elizabeth 6, b. Feb. 13, 1787, d. April 7, 

1801. 

4. Martin Luther 6, b. March 23, 1789, d. 

Sept. II, 18 15. 

5. Susan 6, b. Oct. 15, 1791, d. Jan. 5, 1864. 

6. Margaret 6, b. April 27, 1794, m. John Calk- 

ins. Their son John S. Calkins served in 
the Mexican War and later in the Civil 
War, and d. from the effects of wounds re- 
ceived while in service. 

7. Ann 6, b. Nov. 25, 1796, d. Feb. 7, 1871. 

8. Mary 6, b. Nov. 28, 1799, d. Dec. 7, 1859. 
3. John Calvin 6, b. Feb. 14, 1803. 



londonderry stewarts 99 

Sixth Generation. 

David,^ (William/ Charles/ John/ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Colrain, Feb. 24, 1761. He was 
a soldier under Gen. Daniel Shays ; m. Miriam 
Haven, b. in Hopkinton, Mass., Dec. 27, 1760. 
He was an active and successful farmer, his land 
being in that part of Colrain known as Bernards- 
ton Gore. The little low, long, weather-beaten 
house is still standing (1903) which he erected 
for himself in 1793. ^^ <^- April 4, 1830. She 
d. Nov. 23, 1845. 

Children. 

1. David 7, b. Dec. 21, 1788. He was a soldier 

in the War of 1812, d. at West Point, 
March 16, 1825. 

2. Jane 7, b. Dec. 26, 1790, m. Erastus Chapin, 

who was b. in Springfield, 1790. He was 
a farmer and resided in Leyden the greater 
part of his life ; d. in Greenfield, April 30, 
1870. She d. June 26, 1867. 

Children. 

1. Eliza Jane 8, b. April 25, 18 13. 

2. Mary C. 8, b. April 6, 18 16. 

3. Sarah E. 8, b. March 10, 1818. 

4. Julius E. 8, b. Dec. 14, 1821. 



lOO GENEALOGY OF 

5. David G. 8, b. Aug. 27, 1824. 

6. Miriam 8, b. Aug. 27, 1827. 

3. Amos 7, b. June 4, 1793. 

4. Betsey 7, b. Aug. 25, 1795, m. Jesse Nelson 

of Colrain. 

Children. 

1. Horatio 8, b. Sept. 16, 18 16. 

2. Joram 8, b. June 14, 1818. 

3. Adaline 8, b. Nov. 18, 1824. 

4. Andrew J. 8, b. May , 1830. 

5. William 7, b. Aug. 21, 1797. 

6. Joram 7, b. March 3, 1800, m. in Rutland, 

Vt., d. in Edinburg, N. Y., 1839, leaving a 
son Charles. 

Charles,^ (John/ Charles/ John/ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Colrain, July 15, 1763. He was 
without doubt the soldier from Ashfield who 
served in Colonel Wesson's Massachusetts line 
regiment in 1778, 1779 and 1780, and the same 
who served in Capt. Oliver Shattuck's Co., Lieut. 
Col. Barnabas Sear's Regt. in 1781, m. Mary dau. 
of John Hulbert, the Indian fighter of Colrain. 
A separation followed and a second marriage, 
then a final separation. His second wife was 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS lOI 

Hannah Gates, b. in Leyden about 1777. He 
is said to have been a carpenter by trade and 
erected the house in which he Hved at Leyden 
about 1793. The house is still standing. He 
lived in the immediate neighborhood of the origi- 
nator of a religious sect known as Dorrillites and 
seemed to have been a follower. In the summer 
of 1795 he went to Truxton — then Fabins — 
Onondaga Co., N. Y., his family joining him the 
following winter, the journey being made with an 
ox team and occuping six weeks. He became a 
prosperous man in his new home, prominent 
and active in building up the new town, giving 
the new community transportation, through a 
line of teams to Albany, and having built for 
himself a spacious house, then popularly known 
as the " big red house," he entertained emigrants 
free of charge. He erected a sawmill and grist- 
mill, and gave the land for the cemetery, and 
was at one time the second wealthiest man in 
Onondaga County (the county has since been di- 
vided) but reverses came ; a big lawsuit was waged 
year after year for water privileges until both 
parties spent most of their property. 

Between 18 19 and 1827, he visited his rela- 
tives at Middlebury, Vt., taking the journey on 
horseback, sitting erect and stately in the saddle, 
his long white hair done up in a queue making a 



I02 GENEALOGY OF 



deep impression upon the memory of one of the 
younger members of his host's household. In 
1834, he again sought a home elsewhere ; this 
time Michigan was the goal and a third house 
was built at Genesee, Genesee County, where he 
resided until his death in 1837. His wife, 
Hannah, d. in Flint, Mich., in 1845 ^^ 1846, a 
member of the Baptist church. 

Children by Second Wife. 

1. Clarissa 7, b. in Leyden, Mass., about 1794, 

m. David Mather, d. in California. 

Children. 

1. Louisa 8 4. Emily 8 

2. Mary 8 5. James 8 

3. Anna 8 6. Charlotte 8 

One of the above daughters was many years 
ago principal of a young ladies school in New 
York City. 

2. Amy 7, b. in Truxton, N. Y., about 1797, 

m. Elijah Pierce of Truxton. 

Children. 

1. Laura 8 5. Franklin 8 

2. James 8 6. Mary Jane 8 

3. Abigal 8 7. Adaline 8 

4. Emily 8 8. Charles 8 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO3 

3. Luke 7, b. about 1798, m. Ruth Wrisley. 

One child, Reuben 8. 

4. Laura 7, b. m. Joshua Kendal and re- 

sided at Lafayette, Ind. (was insane). 

Children. 

1. Mary 8. 

2. Arabella 8. 

3. Ruth 8. 

5. Maria 7, m. Wm. Earl, resided in Truxton. 

Children. 

1. Albert 8. 

2. Ann 8. 

3. Mary 8. 

6. Infant 7. 

7. Ransom 7, m. Adalaide Ellsworth. 

Children, 

1. Charlotte 8. 

2. Charles 8. 

3. Mary 8. 

8. Angeline 7, m. Dr. John A. Hayes. 

Children. 
I. John 8. 



I04 GENEALOGY OF 



1. Delia 8. 
3. Emma 8. 

9. Addison 7, b. May 29, 181 1. 

10. Madison 7, died young. 

11. Franklin 7, died young. 

12. Samuel 7, twice married. Was killed by a 

horse thief in Kansas. 

Children. 

1. Augusta 8. 

2. Adalaide 8. 

Enos,^ (Johin,^ Charles,* John,^ Robert,^ 
Walter/) b. in Colrain, Mass., April 15, 1766, 
m. Dec. 6, 1787, Lucretia Clark, b. in Leyden 
July 20, 1767. He was a farmer of his native 
town and from the Biographical Review of Frank- 
lin County we take the following. " He had a 
farm of his own, and carried his produce, together 
with that he bought in large quanties from the 
neighboring farmers, to the Boston market, realiz- 
ing a generous income from his transactions. He 
was an old-time Whig, and was liberal in his re- 
ligious views." He d. Nov. 29, 1856. She d. 
Nov. 6, 1833. 



londonderry stewarts io5 

Children. 

1. Lydia 7, b. Oct. 26, 1788, m. Briggs Potter 

of Leyden, d. 1859. 

2. Sally 7, b. Dec. 28, 1790, m. Robert Riddell 

b. Nov. 15, 1789. 

Children. 

1. William 8, b. Jan. i, 1 8 14, d. April 12, 18 16. 

2. Thomas R. 8, b. Feb. 13, 18 16. 

3. Enos Stewart 8, b. Oct. 25, 18 18. 

4. Sarah 8,* b. Aug. 7, 1823, m. Hon. Oscar 

Lovell Shafter who was b. at Athens, Vt., 
and became Chief Justice of California. 
Judge O. L. Shafter's nephew is the noted 
Gen. William R. Shafter of Cuban war fame. 

5. Mary 8, b. Dec. 8, 1826. 

6. William C. 8, b. Oct. 14, 1829. 

7. Samuel Taggart 8, b. Jan. 17, 1833.' 

8. Henry Gawn 8, b. March 6, 1837. 

3. Enos 7, b. May 20, 1794, lawyer in Boston, 

d. in 1847. 

4. Luther 7, b. May 5, 1796. 

5. William 7, b. Dec. 10, 1798, d. in Rock 

County, Wis. 

* See Addenda, Stewart-Shafter, p. 210. 



I06 GENEALOGY OF 



6. Ann 7, b. Oct. 24, 1800, m. Lewis Clark. 

7. Matilda 7, b. Nov. 12, 1805, ^- Charles 

Smith. 

Children. 

1. Milo Crosby 8, b. Oct. 20, 1830, m. Helen 

S. Stratton. 

2. Lucretia 8, b. July 24, 1834, d. March 28, 

3. Charles Cullen 8, b. May 7, 1837, m. Myra 
' E. Miller. 

4. Mary Lucretia 8, b. July 8, 1843, ^- Oscar 

M. Loomis. 

8. Polly 7, b. Dec. 4, 1807, m. Lawrence Kemp. 

Children. 

1. Mary Ann 8 4. Lucretia 8 

2. Sumner 8 5. Charles S. 8 

3. Horace 8 6. Elsie 8 

John,« (John/ John/ John/ Robert/ Walter/) 
b. April 27, 1773. Resided on the home farm 
in Shelburne, one half of which was deeded to 
him in 1796, the other half to be his after the 
decease of his parents. Previous to 1 8 1 8 changes 
and improvements in the highway made removal 
necessary, and an additional acre was bought just 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO7 

east of the old home and buildings erected. Re- 
verses came and the old farm went out of the 
hands of the Stewarts. He m. April, 1796, 
Charlotte, dau. of Samuel and Grace (Fisk) Flagg 
of Brookfield, Mass., b. in 1 774. She d. Aug. 23, 
1827. He d. in Colrain Jan. 28, 1843. 

Children. 

I. Catherine 7, b. Jan. 19, 1797, m. 1822, Wil- 
kins B. Clark. He d. Jan. 27, 1877. She 
d. April 25, 1889. 

Children. 

1. Catherine F. 8, b. Jan. 1823, m. April 18, 

1838, D. W. Temple, d. Oct. 30, 1875. 

2. Charlotte F. 8, b. May 10, 1826, m. George 

Keith, d. 1861. 

3. Caroline A. 8, b. July 15, i828,m. March 8, 

1849, Lorenzo Park, Hinsdale, N. H. 

4. Dexter 8, b. May, 1831, d. Jan. 17, 1832. 

5. Dexter W. 8, b. April 24, 1834, m. Fannie 

Langdon, Torrington, Conn. 

6. Isabel A. 8, b. Sept. 24, 1837, m. Lucius 

Cook. She d. Jan. , 1902, at Orlando, 
Fla. 

7. J. Darwin 8, b. April 12, 1844, ^- April 8, 

1868, Minnie Saunders. 



I08 GENEALOGY OF 

2. Roxana 7, b. April 5, 1798, d. Sept. 12, 1802. 

3. Electa 7, b. June 5, 1800, d. Sept. 14, 1802. 

The above two were victims of the great epi- 
demic of that year. 

4. Infant 7, b. 1801, d. age three months. 

5. Samuel F. b. Sept. 9, 1803. 

6. Ira 7, b. Aug. 23, 1805. 

7. Amanda C. 7, b. Nov. 1 7, 1 809, m. March 27, 

1834, Lorenzo Severance of Shelburne, 
Mass. He passed to the higher life 
Sept. 22, 1887, and she followed him 
Feb. 23, 1898. The proverb " she looketh 
well to the ways of her household, and eateth 
not the bread of idleness," was true of her. 
That " cleanliness was next to godliness " 
seemed moulded into her very life and char- 
acter, and through a long and busy life she 
adhered tenaciously to a strictly systematic 
method, in all her household duties and the 
members of her family were trained to the 
same degree of system and tidiness. Yet 
while keeping an incessant warfare with dirt, 
the proverbs were equally true of her. " She 
seeketh wool and flax and she layeth her 
hands to the spindle." With this and the 
ample time she found to ply her needle, she 
was constantly adding to the coffers of her 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS IO9 

home. In her teens she suffered the loss of 
a beloved mother, over whom she had 
watched with a daughter's anxious care, dur- 
ing a sickness of many long months. After 
this bereavement their troubles came not 
singly, their property was being swallowed 
up by creditors, and she unhesitatingly left 
the parental roof and commenced the life 
of a domestic, first in her own neighborhood 
and town, and afterward in Watertown, 
Mass., serving early and late for the pittance 
of one dollar per week ; yet from this scanty 
allowance she managed to save a sum suffi- 
cient to redeem their home and an acre of 
land, which furnished a home for her father 
in his declining years, and won for herself 
a reputation for faithfulness and filial esteem. 

Children. 

1. Calvin C. 8, b. Oct. lO, 1 83 5, died March 27, 

1836. 

2. Mary E. 8, b. May 3, 1837, m. Aug. 28, 

1866, John Kimball, m. 2d Reuben W. 

Field. She d. March 10, 1890. 

She early united with the church and had been 

a faithful and consistent Christian, and when her 

last sickness came she waited with faith and a 

childlike trust for the coming messenger which 



no GENEALOGY OF 



should bear her forth to a more glorious exist- 
ence. 

" Death cannot come 
To her untimely, who is fit to die, 
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven, 
The briefer life, the earUer immortality.' 



>» 



3. Martha A. 8, b. May 3, 1839, m. Nov. 8, 

1877, Henry O. Draper, Ware, Mass. 

4. B. Frank 8, b. March 2, 1841, m. Dec. 25, 

1875, Elizabeth M. Kimball. He is owner 
and occupant of the old Stewart homestead, 
Shelburne, Mass. 

5. James H. 8, b. Sept. 4, 1844, d. Feb. 15, 

1846. 

6. Herman L. 8, b. Nov. 4, 1854, d. Feb. 10, 

1855. 

8. Eliza R. 7, b. Jan. 12, 18 13, m. about 1841, 
Dennis Daniels. He d. Dec. 16, 1884; she 
d. April 28, 1894. 

Children. 

1. Ann E. 8, b. April 30, 1842, m. Sept. 7, 

1858, Alonzo Goodwin, m. 2d Burtus So- 
per. Auburn, N. Y. 

2. Samuel F. 8, b. Oct. 2, 1843, "^' J^^^ ^> 

1 87 1, Fannie A. Morton. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS III 

He was a soldier in the Civil War, in ^id 
Regt. of '^ nine months' men ; " was in the Battle 
of Baton Rouge, Battle of Indian Bend, forty- 
days' siege at Port Hudson and several skir- 
mishes. North Orange, Mass. 

3. John S. 8, b. March 14, 1845, ^' Mary 

E. Harris. He d. June, 1874. 
A soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in July, 
1 86 1, in the i8th Mass. Regt. for three years. 
He was in several battles, was wounded in the 
head, had a sunstroke, yet he served his full time 
and came home from the war in good fighting 
trim and looking remarkably well in spite of the 
hard service he passed through. 

4. Augusta S. 8, b. Aug. 12, 1846, m. Charles 

Mosher (?) d. (?) 

5. Helena R. 8, b. Aug. 21, 1848, d. Aug. 27, 

1880. 

6. George F., 8, b. March 21, i850,m. Sarah 

McGuire, Kewanee, 111. 

7. Henry W., 8, b. Aug. 2, 1852, d. March i, 

1859. 

8. Effington R., 8, b. Oct. 2, 1856, d. Jan. 26, 

1859. 

9. Infant, 7, b. d. -18 15. 



112 GENEALOGY OF 



Abraham W./ (Robert/ John/ John/ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Windham, N. H., August 4, 1786. 
He was early fitted for teaching and followed that 
calling for eighteen years, having labored in Sa- 
lem, N. H., Methuen and Bernardston, Mass., 
Kingsbury, N. Y., and other places. A thorough 
and successful teacher for his time, his school 
experiences were varied and interesting. He was 
teaching during the winter of 18 10, noted for the 
cold Friday of January 19 of that year. On that 
day only five of his pupils braved the cold to 
meet him at the school-house warmed only by an 
open fireplace. They had gone through their 
morning exercises, and next were to write, but the 
ink froze on their pens ; the cold was so intense 
he was obliged to dismiss the school, and taking 
a little boy in his arms, who was too small to face 
the increasing cold, he started for home and bade 
the others to get home as best they could. The 
first exercises of his pupils each morning was to 
read the Bible, and while the scholars were read- 
ing he occupied the time in sharpening quills for 
pens, or setting copies. His knowledge of the 
Bible being such that the least error would attract 
his instant attention, no matter what he was doing. 
One morning a roguish boy saw he was very busy 
and thought he would not notice whether he was 
reading right or wrong, and he read his verse 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I I3 

wrong purposely, but he was instantly interrupted 
with, " You are not reading right." He was fond 
of relating his experience in a school where the 
master had been killed by the scholars, previous 
to his teaching there. He was a large and mus- 
cular man and noted for his wonderful strength. 
He once told the writer that when he was sixteen 
years old he shouldered an old cannon on Salem 
Common, a feat that no other man was able to 
perform. 

He was a soldier in the War of 1812. Served 
at Portsmouth, N. H., on garrison duty, and his 
descendants were among the bravest of the brave 
during the late Civil War. He m. Betsey Coch- 
ran and lived for some time at Salem, N. H. His 
old Bible, a gift from his mother, printed in Edin- 
burgh by His Majesty's Printer, Alexander Kin- 
caid, is in his son's possession. Upon the fly 
leaves are written numerous odd bits of poetry 
and snatches from hymns. He d. in Haverhill, 
Mass., Jan. 3, 1870. She d. Jan. 9, 1868. 

Children. 

1. John 7, b. March 27, 18 15. 

2. James 7, b. Oct. 7, 18 17. 

3. Robert 7, b. June 6, 1820. 

8 



114 GENEALOGY OF 



4. Sarah 7, b. Dec. 30, 1822, m. June 29,1842, 

Isaiah H. Emerson. 

Children. 

1. Ellen M. 8, b. April 9, 1844, d. Nov. 1872. 

2. E. Herbert 8, b. Jan. 5, 1846, m. July 6, 

1 869, Jennie Leighton. 

3. Arthur K. 8, b. Aug. 1847, d. Nov. 9, 1889, 

m. 1887, Annie Elsworth. 

4. Eugene E. 8, b. Aug. 12, 1852, d. May 10, 

1883. 

5. Charles C. 8, b. Aug. 9, 1854, m. Delia 

Kingman. 

6. Emma L. 8, b- May 30, i86i,m. Nov. 1883, 

William F. Page. 

5. Rebecca 7, b. April 11, 1825, m. Alfred 

B. Noyes. She d. Jan. 24, 1901. He d. 
Aug. 12, 1904. 

Children. 

I. Frank E. 8, b. Oct. 10, 1853, m. Aug. 

1894, Mary E. Cross. 



2. Charles B. 8, b. Sept. 12, 1864, m. June 15, 
1883, Orra A. Hill. 

6. Lucinda T. 7, b. 1827, d. Nov. 29, 1844. 

7. Mary P. 7, b. 1829, d. Sept. 14, 1834. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS II5 



Aaron,^(see Memoir of Capt. Stewart, p. 172) 
(John/ Samuel,* John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. at 
Bennington, Vt., March 22, 1775, m. at New 
Haven, Vt., May 16, 1807, Selinda, dau. of 
Captain Colt, of Lyme, Ct. 

The following is a copy of a letter written by 
Aaron Stewart to Hon. Mathew Lyon, a Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the State of Kentucky: 

" New Haven, Vt., Dec' 7, 1808. 
" Sir : 

"Although I was a child when you left this 
part of the country my knowledge of your char- 
acter, as well as the friendship existing between 
you and my father (John Stewart) induces me to 
trouble you with a few inquiries as to the proceed- 
ings in Kentucky, or rather their laws under the 
following circumstances. One of my uncles went 
into that state, I think about the year ' 84 and 
purchased lands. He erected a distilery and was 
doing business to good advantage till he was 
draughted out in defense of his country against 
the Savages and was killed in St. Clair's defeat. 
My father had advise of his death soon after 
the melancholly event took place but the recent 
tumult there and the fears natural to people un- 
acustomed to travel lengthy journies prevented 
him from making any application for the property 
left by my uncle. My father is eldest brother 
and I am his oldest son. Now, sir, if you will 
have the goodness to inform me whether that 
property is now attainable and what are the nee- 



Tl6 GENEALOGY OF 



cessary measures to be pursued if it is you will 
confer a real obligation upon one of your distant 
friends. I presume I could not apply to a more 
suitable person for information in the above bus- 
iness than yourself. Your intimacy with its laws 
will enable you to inform me by letter whether 
I can obtain it, which favor I have to beg you 
will comply with as soon as you can without 
inconvenience to your own important concerns. 

" I am very respectfully you ob^ servant. 

" Hon. M. Lyon. Aaron Stewart. 



> > 



The foregoing letter seems to have been re- 
turned to Aaron Stewart for it was enclosed in the 
following reply from Lyon : 

" Washington, Feb. 20, 1809. 

" Sir :— 

"Your letter of the 12th of December is be- 
fore me. In hopes of finding some clue to a 
knowledge of whereabouts your uncle lived I 
have waited an answer to you without success. I 
see no difficulty in your recovering your uncle's 
property if it can be found. The law provides 
for heirs under age and there is so many ways of 
breaking up vendue titles that there is but little 
faith in them in Kentucky. Purchasers return 
the land for a handsome gratuity. Kentucky is 
larger than four Northern states and your uncle 
may have lived in Ohio — where I live was not 
settled till 1798. This is all I can say about it. 

" Yours respectfully 

" M, Lyon," 



londonderry stewarts ii7 

Children of Aaron and Selinda Stewart. 

1. Charlotte Augusta Matilda 7, b. at New Ha- 

ven, Vt., Feb. 28, 1808, d. Sept. 25, 18 10. 

2. Homer Hine 7, b. April i, 18 10. (See Me- 

moir of Capt. Stewart, p 177.) 

3. Ira Hubbell 7, b. Feb. 6, 18 12. 

Ira,^ (John,^ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) 
b. at Pawlet, Vt., July 15, 1779, and was Noble 
Stewart's partner. He became a man of great 
prominence in Western Vermont ; member of 
the legislature ; trustee of Middlebury Col- 
lege, etc. Oct. 29, 1 8 14, he married Elizabeth 
Hubbell of Lanesboro, Mass. He died at Mid- 
dlebury, Vt., Feb. 13, 1855. 

Children. 

1. Huldah H. 7, b. at Middlebury, Vt., Jan. — , 

1820, d. April 12, 1830. 

2. Dugald 7, b. Sept. 26, 1821, d. March 30, 

1870. 

3. John Wolcott 7, b. Nov. 25, 1825. 

John B.,^ (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert,^ 
Walter,^) b. in Bristol, Vt., 1791. Previous to 
1 8 16 he went to Cayuga County, N. Y., where he 
was engaged in teaching when his father joined 



Il8 GENEALOGY OF 



him while on his way to Ohio, in the fall of that 
year. In the spring of 1817 he returned to the 
old home at Bristol and made arrangements for 
the removal of the family to Royalton, Ohio, 
where the father had located and was rearing a 
home in the dense wilderness. This journey was 
made with two yoke of oxen and a horse, and 
they were forty days on the road. Here he re- 
sumed his work as teacher and surveyor and 
owned and cultivated a small farm. He was one 
of the earliest pension agents appointed by the 
government, his duties taking him to Cleveland 
quarterly, on horseback, and bringing back two 
canvas bags filled with silver dollars. The old sol- 
diers gathered at his home, the bags were opened, 
the money counted out and divided. He was 
a staunch Whig and very pronounced in his po- 
litical and religious belief. He m. Huldah Hayes 
and d. Sept. 13, 188 1 in Royalton, Ohio, a. 90 
years. She d. March 13, 1883, a. 83 years and 
7 days. The following obituary was written for 
a local paper by her son Prof John Stewart. 

" Huldah Hayes was b. at Bristol, Vt., March 6, 
1 800, and in 1 820 she went with her father, David 
Hayes to the wilds of Northern Ohio and settled 
in Canfield, Mahoning county. She was married 
to John B. Stewart, and hand in hand did these 
two noble soldiers begin the battle of their long 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS II9 



and useful lives. Being among the first settlers 
of the state, there were, of course, many hardships 
to be endured, but nobly did those two strong 
hearts bear every burden thrust upon them, and 
not within their own home circle, were their labors 
of love confined ; there were neighbors and friends 
who needed words of encouragement and cheer, 
and with all such they were ever ready to sympa- 
thize." 

Children. 

1. Caroline 7, b. Oct. 1822, m. 1846 Sher- 

wood. Had one son and two daughters none 
of whom are living. Mrs. Sherwood was liv- 
ing at Riverdale, Mich., in 1900. 

2. Henry 7, d. in Kansas. Five children. 

3. Royal 7, d. in Kansas. Three children. 

4. Betsey 7, m. 3d Wm. Wilber. Seven chil- 

dren. Mrs. Wilber was living at Royalton, 
Ohio, in 1900. 

5. John 7, m. Rosalthe, a great-grandaughter of 

Gen. Ethan Allen. 
He was teacher in the Deaf and Dumb Insti- 
tute at Columbus, Ohio, from 1873 to 1886, in 
which year he died at Salt Lake City, Utah, while 
on a trip to California. 

6. Phebe 7, b. Aug. 1840, m. Charles W. Fitz- 

water, b. Oct. 5, 1838, in Elk, Warren Co., 
Penna. He was the son of Thomas and 



I20 GENEALOGY OF 



Polly (Thompson) Fitzwater. They reside 
on her father's farm. 

Samuel,^ (Samuel/ Samuel,^ John,^ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Bristol, Vt., May 6, 1796; went 
to Ohio with his father's family and settled on a 
farm in Newburgh, six miles from Cleveland ; 
m. Jan. 15, 181 8, Cherry Edwards, b. Nov. 22, 
1800, d. Nov. 21, 1858. 

Children. 

1. Jehial S. 7, b. Oct. 15, 1818. 

2. Noble I. 7, b. April 15, 1821, d. March 25, 

1856. 

3. Calvin M. 7, b. Nov. 4, 1825, d. Aug. 26, 

1845. 

4. Rodolphus E. 7, b. Jan. 24, 1828. 

John C.,^ ( John,^ Joseph,^ John,^ Robert,^ Wal- 
ter,^) b. in Kingsbury, Washington Co., N. Y., 
1803, m. Serena Linendoll, and lived at Fort Ed- 
ward, N. Y., practically all his life until a few 
years prior to his death, when he lived with his 
daughter at Glens Falls, N. Y., where he d. 
Nov. 13, 1891. 

Children. 
I. John J. 7, b. May 27, 1830, d. young. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 121 

2. Susan S. y, b. Aug. 22, 1831, m. M. H. 

Bradt, a retired coal merchant, resides at 
Glens Falls. 

Child. 
Ernest, who d. young. 

3. Rhoda W. 7, b. June 5, 1833, ^- Wm. R. 

De Garon (?). He is dec. ; she is a resident 
of New York City. 

Children. 

1. David 8, b. at Fort Miller, N. Y. 

2. William 8, b. at Fort Miller, N. Y., dec. 

3. Anna 8, b. 1862, d. 1892. 

4. Serena 8, b. 1866, m. Henry C. Stuart. Re- 

side in New York City. 

4. Charles B. 7, b. Dec. 16, 1834. • 

5. Mary Ann 7, b. Sept. 29, 1836, m. Oct. 7, 

1857, Walter S. Durkee ; both dec; she d. 
Sept. 22, 1869. 

Children. 

1. John S. 8, b. March 2, 1859. Professor of 

music. 

2. Minnie D. 8, d. young. 



122 GENEALOGY OF 



6. George W. 7, b. Feb. 27, 1838, m. Dec. 2, 

1880, Elizabeth Vanderberg ; resident of 
San Diego, Cal., retired miner. 

7. John C, Jr., 7, b. July 25, 1840. Served 

through the Civil War and died from the 
effects of hard service; d. unm. Feb. 12, 

1877. 

8. James R. 7, b. July 21, 1841. 

9. Rosana 7, b. April 23, 1 842, d. Aug. 24, 1 860. 
10. Margaret E. 7, b. Jan. 22, 1850, m. at Cov- 
ington, Kentucky, Jan. 6, 1882, John C. 
Barry ; reside in Memphis, Tenn. 

Seventh Generation. 

Amos,^ (David,^ William,^ Charles,* John,^ 
Robert," Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., Jan. 4, 
1793. He was a hard worker, a successful farmer, 
a kind neighbor, a prominent man in town affairs, 
and a strict Presbyterian in religion. He served 
his town in the legislature three years ; was select- 
man in 1831, 1832, 1833,1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 
1838, 1842, 1843, 1846, and 1863. He was a 
soldier in the War of 1812, and later a captain in 
the militia. He was twice married ; his first wife 
was Margaret Oaks, b. 1797, d. Aug. 29, 1850. 
He m. 2d Lydia Babcock. She d. Jan. 21, 1883 ; 
he d. June 17, 1867. 



londonderry stewarts i 23 

Children, all by First Marriage. 

1. Amarlah Haven 8, b. May 13, 1818. A 

notice of his death published in the Gazette 
says: " Amariah H. Stewart, aged 84 years 
and 10 months, died in Westford, Ct., March 
25, 1902. Mr. Stewart was for many years 
a teacher in pubHc schools. He enlisted in 
' the 29th Reg't, New Jersey Vol., as orderly 
sergeant. He was present at the Battles of 
Antietam and Malvern Hill. He was also 
a member of the G. A. R. of Colrain until a 
short time previous to his death, when he 
applied for a discharge on account of his age 
and the great distance which prevented his 
meeting with the post. . . . The interment 
was in the family lot in East Colrain. 
Though afflicted with a chronic disease, his 
death was sudden and unexpected, being 
found dead in his room. He was unmar- 
ried." 

2. William 8, b. Sept 16, 1820. 

3. Silas 8, b. Dec. 21, 1822. Physician, d. in 

New York City, Nov. 23, 1865. -^^ ^^^ 
one of the " Forty-niners " who crossed the 
plains to California. He made a second 
trip to the "land of gold" about 1851. 
Unmarried (?). 



124 GENEALOGY OF 



4. Nancy J. 8, b. June lo, 1825, d. Sept. 16, 1849. 

5. David 8, b. July 29, 1827. 

6. Amos 8, b. Dec. — , 1829, d. May 6, 1832. 

7. Amos 8, b. May 29, 1833. 

8. Charles 8, b. June 29, 1836, d. Sept. 2, 1870. 

9. Mary 8, b. Feb. 13, 1839, m. S. D. Handy 

of Colrain, and moved to Illinois about 1876. 
She d. at Maple Park, Nov. 5, 1881 ; he d. 
in Chicago. 



Children. 

1. Margaret, a teacher in Chicago. 

2. N. Fitch. 

10. George 8, b. June 29, 1843. 



3 



William,^ (David,^ William,^ Charles,^ John, 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Aug. 21, 1797, 
m. Jan. i, 1822, Susan, b. May 15, 1800, dau. 
of Jared Brown of Colrain. He m. 2d, Prudence 
Trumble of Edinburg, N. Y., b. March3i, 1807, 
d. Nov. 6, 1887. He d. Nov. 8, 1881. 

Children by First Marriage. 

I. Miriam 8, b. Sept. 29, 1822, m. Whitney 

and both d. in New York City. She d. 
July 10, 1862. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I25 

2. William F. 8, b. Dec. 29, 1825. 

Children by Second Marriage. 

3. Sarah J. 8, b. Nov. i, 1833, m. Franklin 

Morrill of Vt. Both d. at Saratoga Springs, 
leaving two daughters. 

4. David J. 8, b. May 10, 1835, d. March 16, 

1837- 

5. Polly T. 8j b. July 3, 1837, m. Sampson Sea- 

ver of Edinburg, N. Y. He d. Jan. 1890; 
she d. Sept. 6, 1903, leaving three sons and 
one daughter. 

6. Adelaide N. 8, b. Sept. 10, 1839, m. John H. 

York of Perth, N. Y. He d. Nov. 15, 1877, 
leaving two daughters. She resides at Glov- 
ersville, N. Y. 

7. Maria L. 8, b. Oct. 31, i84i,m. George Stew- 

art of Colrain, Mass. 

8. Elizabeth C. 8, b. June 8, 1844, m. Jerome 

Henry, and resides at Topeka, Kansas. Six 
children. 

9. Lucy A. 8, b. Feb. 10, 1849, ^- Harlow Chase 

of Broadalbin, N. Y. Residence, Kansas, 
where she d. May 6, 1893. Seven children. 

Addison,^ (Charles,^ John,^ Charles,^ John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. May 29, 181 1, in Truxton, 



126 GENEALOGY OF 



N. Y., m. Lucy Tilden, b. Sept. 28, 1 8 1 1, in Avon, 
N. Y., and went to Michigan in 1833 ^^^ com- 
menced pioneer life in the traditional log house. 
Later he lived with and cared for his parents, and 
after his father's death removed to Flint, Mich. 
He was a tall, athletic man and rather proud 
of his physical powers. He d. at Flint, March 
8, 1848. 

Children. 

I. Damon 8, b. Feb. 5, 1834, at Genesee, Mich., 

m. Oct. 23, 1867, Frances ^^Q^^ggj^- ^ 

in Barton, N. Y. Mr. Stewart — or " Capt. 
Stewart " as he is called — entered the U. S. 
service May 25, 1861, as private, Co. F, 
2d Mich. Vol. Inf. ; he rose in rank to cor- 
poral and sergeant ; was wounded In his 
hand in engagement at Williamsburg, Va., 
May 5, 1862; discharged Aug. 6, 1862, to 
reenlist as Captain Co. K, 23d Mich. Inf.; 
mustered out March 4, 1865. 

Children. 

1. Hobart 9, b. Dec. 6, i868,m. May 18, 1904, 

Mary C. Dewey. 

2. Mabel 9, b. Dec. 28, 1870. 

3. Lucy 9, b. Dec. 18, 1873. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 27 

4. William C. 9, b. March 10, 1876. Admitted 

to the Bar 1904. 

5. Bertha 9, b. April 18, 1879, m. Jan. 15, 1904, 

at Portland, Oregon, Dr. Frederick D. 
Strieker ; residence Grant's Pass, Oregon. 

6. Frances 9, b. Jan. 13, 1882. 

2. Harriet 8, b. Sept. 23, 1836, m. Watson Rich- 

ards, 2d Oren Stone. 

3. Laura E. 8, b. Feb. 15, 1838, m. Jan. 7, 1863, 

Henry Seymour. He d. Oct. 5, 1899. 

Children. 

1. James 9, b. March 15, 1864. 

2. Charles 9, b. Dec. 14, 1865, ^- -^^g- 6, 

1866. 

3. Harriet F. 9, b. Oct. 25, 1867. 

4. Catherine L. 9, b. Aug. 10, 1869. 

5. William H. 9, b. Dec. 11, 1874. 

6. Mary S. 9, b. June 14, 1876. 

7. Emily 9, b. Dec. 30, 1880. 

4. Charles W. 8, b. Sept. 7, 1839, soldier in the 

Civil War; was ist Lieut, in Co. E, 23d 
Regt. Mich. Inf. Vol. ; was killed in action 



128 GENEALOGY OF 



at Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864. The poet 
says : 

" The gallant man, though slain in fight he be, 
Yet leaves his country safe, his nation free ; 
Entails a debt on all the grateful State : 
His own brave friends shall glory in his fate." 

5. Ann 8, b. Sept. 4, 1842, m. Jan. 8, 1879, 
Henry Van Aken, and d. May 3, 1884. 

Child. 

I. Elizabeth S. 9, b. Jan. 17, 1883, at Vernon, 
Mich., and after her mother's death was 
adopted by her aunt, Harriet Stone. 



6. 



r 



7- 



Richard A. 8, b. Oct. 10, 1845. ^^^ ^ P^^" 

vatein Co. G, loth Regt. Mich. Inf. Vol. ; 

was killed in action at Jonesborough, Ga., 

Sept. I, 1864. 
Catherine 8, b. Oct. 10, 1845, ^- March 24, 

1851. 



Luther,^ (Enos,^ John,^ Charles,^ John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., May 5, 
1 790, m. in I 820, Belinda, b. Sept. 7, 1 796, dau. of 
Mathewand Mary (Anderson) Barber. The Bio- 
graphical Review says : " His life was spent in Col- 
rain, and, besides attending to his farming interests, 
he had a large lumber business. He was a very 
busy and successful man during his active life, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 29 

and passed his last years in quiet retirement. He 
was honest, truthful, and positive in his opinions 
of right ; and he had no fellowship with what he 
esteemed wrong, and the Bible was his counsellor. 
He was a Republican in politics, and he and his 
wife members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He died Dec. 30, 1885. His wife passed away 
Feb. 5, 1892. 

Children. 

I. Mary S. 8,m. Jan. 18, 1842, Burton A. Burn- 
ham. 



Children. 

1. Sumner C. ? 

2. Sarah M. ? 

2. Luther B. 8, m. Oct. 14, 1848, Melissa Miner, 

m. 2d, Sevie (?) Shepardson, m. 3d, Sarah 
Taylor, residence Colrain. 

Children. 

1. Rosilla 9 ? 

2. WiUiam 9, who is an artist at Brattleboro, Vt. 

3. Maria F. 8, m. Jan. 20, 1848, Elisha D. Alex- 

ander. 

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Children. 

1. Mary M. 9 5. Edmund 9 

2. Grace 9 6. Elisha L. 9 

3. Orrin 9 7. Linna 9 

4. Eva E. 9 8. Emma H. 9 

4. Emma 8, b. m. May 4, 1859, Avery J. 

Denison. 

5. Edmund B. 8, b. Oct. 26, 1835, ^* ^^^- ^^' 

1858, Harriet, dau. of William Robertson. 
She d. April 28, 1898. " He spent his life 
on the old homestead with the exception of 
three years, when he started out for himself. 
At the expiration of that time he took charge 
of the home place and has been a very suc- 
cessful farmer, devoting considerable time to 
sheep raising. He is a great lover of fine 
horses and generally keeps one or two 'fine 
steppers.' In a good apple year he makes 
about two thousand barrels of cider. He 
deals wholly in sweet cider, finding market 
in the vicinity, in New York, and in Boston." 
His fine buildings are located in a beautiful 
spot on the banks of Green River, in East 
Colrain. 

6. Juliet A. 8, b. July 23, 1838, m. Jan. 8, 1856, 

James P. Bell. 



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Children. 

1. Lizzie E. 9, b. June 28, 1857, d. Nov. 14, 

1874. 

2. Charles E. 9, b. Jan. 15, 1859, d. Nov. 5, 

1874. 

3. Bertie B. 9, b. April 25, 1865, d. Nov. 6, 

1874. 

4. Arthur S. 9, b. Oct. i, 1870, d. Nov. 17, 

1870. 

5. John A. 9, b. Nov. 17, 1876, d. Dec. 23, 

1879. 

Samuel F./ (John,^ John,^ John/ John,^ 
Robert/ Walter/) b. in Sheburne, Mass., Sept. 9, 
1803, m. April 19, 1837, Mary Sweet, b. Nov. 5, 
1807, i^ Milford, Otsego County, N. Y. He 
followed farming in his native town for several 
years, but like his kin, the State of New York 
had a peculiar attraction for him, and early in 
1830 resolved to seek his fortune in that land of 
promise. He halted for a time near Utica, where 
he found prosperity sufficient to make that his 
abiding place for some years, and there he found 
his wife, a daughter of wealthy parents. In the 
fall of 1839 he paid his native place a final visit 
with a view of another removal. About this time 



132 GENEALOGY OF 



the great West held out inducements to till her 
broad acres, and early in i 840 he left Utica with 
his family for Illinois, traveling by canal boat to 
Buffalo, a luxury in the mode of travel which had 
superseded the slow moving ox team of his grand- 
father's time. From Buffalo the journey was 
made with a pair of horses and wagon. 

Reaching the vast prairies of Illinois he took 
up a ranch and erected a house three miles from 
Buffalo Grove, since called Polo. But fortune 
still beckoned onward, and after a residence of 
three years, he sold out and removed to Albion, 
Dane County, Wisconsin, where he encountered 
all the hardships and uncertainties of a pioneer far- 
mer, and when the earth refused to yield suste- 
nance to man, the venison of the forest and fish 
of the lake was the resort, while rattle snakes and 
other natives disputed the right of way, but he 
conquered obstacles and resided in Dane Co., 
twenty-four years. He then sold out and pur- 
chased a farm on Otter Creek, in the town of 
Milton, Rock County, where he continued to re- 
side until his death which occurred on Aug. 15, 
1876. She d. May 10, 1872. 

Children. 

I. Charlotte A. 8, b. in Utica, N. Y., Dec. 31, 
1838, m. Oct. 13, i860, Richard B. Hull of 



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Milton, Wis., b. Dec. 7, 1837, d. Feb. 17, 
1904. 

Children. 

1. Luella A. 9, b. Oct. 14, 1861, m. Smith, 

m. 2d, McKenzie. She d. June 15, 

1904. 

2. C. Eugene 9, b. May 2, 1865. Resides on 

the old homestead with his widowed mother. 

2. F. Eugene 8, b. in Buffalo Grove, 111., Aug. 

15, 1841. 

3. John 8, b. in Albion, Wis., Sept. 3, 1843, d. 

Aug. 6, 1859. 

4. Mary R. 8, b. June 18, 1845, "^- ^^^- ^^^3> 

Justin M. Hull, b. June 9, 1845. -^^ ^^^ 
a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in 1862 ; 
served fourteen months, and was discharged 
by reason of an injury received at the Battle 
of Prairie Grove, Ark. He graduated from 
the Bennett Medical College and commenced 
practice as a physician, in Lake Mills, Iowa. 
He was elected to the State Legislature in 
1879. He was a member of the Iowa State 
Board of Health. About 1 885 he moved to 
Milton, Wis. He d. suddenly at Madison, 
Wis., April 11, 1889. 



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Children. 

1. Nora K. 9, b. March 3, 1866, d. May 26, 

1896, m. Chas. R. Hill. 

2. Emma A. 9, b. Dec. 12, 1867, d. Dec. 26, 

1867. 

3. Mary R. 9, b. March 23, 1869, d. Jan. 16, 

1870. 

' 4. Nathan J. 9, b. June 12, 1871, Milton, Wis. 

5. James L. 8, b. March 18, 1848. 

Ira; (John/ John/ John/ John/ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Shelburne, Aug. 23, 1805, ^• 
Caroline Little of Halifax, Vt. He was a black- 
smith by trade and followed his brother Samuel 
to York State where he worked at his trade on 
the canal line near Rome, but his health failing, 
he returned to Massachusetts and d. in Shelburne, 
Oct. 15, 1836. She m. 2d, Whitney of Con- 
way. 

Children. 

I. Caroline M. 8, b. Jan. 24, 1829. Left an 
orphan at the age of seven, she received her 
training in a Shelburne family. The writer 
remembers her as a person of remarkable 
beauty and geniality ; a sweet singer, and 
devoted Christian ; m. Denison Green of 



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Bernardston, b. 1825. They went West in 
1856 and the following description of their 
experience as pioneers is given by their son. 
" Denison W. Green and his wife and child 
left Bernardston, Mass., in 1856, to seek a 
home in the then far West going as far 
west as Dane Co., Wis., where they remained 
till the fall of i860. Land was high in that 
part of the country, and hearing of the 
beautiful climate of Minnesota with its free 
lands, he emigrated from Albion, Wis., to 
Minnesota, arriving at the town of Bethel, 
now known as Linwood, Anoka County, 
about the middle of October of that year. 
At that time not a foot of railroad was built 
in the state, and the journey was made with 
horses and a covered wagon, the outfit being 
owned by a man in Bethel, who had pur- 
chased them in Wisconsin where we lived, 
and engaged him to bring us through. Our 
whole earthly possessions consisted of a few 
household goods and one cow which we 
drove along, but died a few weeks after our 
arrival. This, with a hard winter before us 
was not very cheering, and at this time our 
finances in the way of cash amounted to 
J 1. 25. We managed to get into an old log 
house, situated upon the banks of a beauti- 



136 \ GENEALOGY OF 



ful lake, where a few acres had been opened 
up, which upon the following spring we 
proceeded to plant. The house contained 
two rooms, one below and one up stairs. 
I will not mention the experience we had in 
getting it in suitable shape to move into, 
but in due time we moved in and commenced 
housekeeping with such as we had, but our 
furniture was mostly home made. Tamarack 
was the wood used mostly in this line for 
bedsteads, tables, and stools, but our first 
table was made from the boards of a box of 
goods that we had shipped by steamboat to 
St. Paul, and was quite an elaborate affair as 
it had leaves. 
As the country was sparsely settled and every 
one without means, no work was to be 
had to speak of, but fur animals were plen- 
tiful and father trapped them, and the money 
obtained from them, and with the wild game 
abounding in the woods we lived very well, 
but did not put on much style. During the 
summer and autumn of 1861, father ob- 
tained work and so got another cow, work- 
ing fifty days for her. The winter passed 
about the same as the one before. In 
August, 1862, we were warned that the 
Sioux Indians were upon us, and we turned 



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out our COW to shift for herself, and with the 
whole neighborhood fled to St. Paul, by ox 
team, traveling night and day to reach a 
place of safety. There we remained two 
weeks, until the Indians were driven back, 
but not until they had plundered a large 
tract of country and murdered many hundred 
people. We then returned to our home to 
commence over again, having spent what 
little money we had during our stay in St. 
Paul. A little later father took up a home- 
stead consisting of i6o acres, one mile from 
our first location, and in the spring of 1863 
we built a log house and a stable and moved 
into it to commence anew, we having sold 
out for a trifle what improvements we had 
made on our former location. Upon this 
farm we toiled as best we could with little 
means to work with, other than our hands, 
but after many years we had opened up a 
beautiful farm, and it was then that mother 
passed away. No one who has not passed 
through the experience can imagine the 
hardships that the pioneer has to pass 
through and undergo, in order to open up 
the beautiful West. Our nearest point of 
trade was forty miles, taking four days to 
make the trip with an ox team. Volumes 



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could be written upon the subject." She 
d. June 9, 1873. ^^ ^' J^h ^^5 1890. 

Child. 

I. Clarence D. 9, b. Feb. 27, 1853, m. Nov. 20, 
1879, Sadie J. Dow. ; m. 2d, April 30, 1896, 
Mrs. Eudora DeLue. Dealer in real estate 
and loans, Anoka, Minn. 

2. James I. 8, b. May 29, 1830. 

3. Samuel O. 8, b. ,d. young. 

4. Amanda 8, b. about 1834, after the death of 

her father she was adopted by Mrs. Phebe 
Webster of Upton, Mass. ; d. about 1849. 

5. Maria 8, b. Aug. — , 1836, d. April 24, 1837. 

John,^ (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. March 27, 1815, m. 
April 19, 1838, Alice S. Webster. His early 
life was spent in farming and shoemaking, buy- 
ing his leather and selling the products of his la- 
bors at Haverhill, Mass. About the time the 
shoe business received such an impetus through- 
out New England he disposed of his farm and 
engaged successfully in shoe manufacturing at 
Haverhill, and continued in that business during 
the rest of his active life. He d. Sept. 30, 
1894. Shed. Feb. 13, 1895. 



londonderry stewarts i39 

Children. 

1. Sylvanus 8, b. April 14, 1840. 

2. Charles P. 8, b. Dec. 19, 1842. A shoemaker. 

A soldier in the Civil War in the 50th U. V. 
M. ; d. May 5, 1872. 

3. Mary E. 8, b. March 9, 1844, d. young. 

4. Warren A. 8, b. March 2, 1846. 

5. Mary E. 8, b. July 30, 1 847, m. May 20, 1 869, 

Geo. M. Paul of Haverhill. They have 
one daughter, Alice, b. Jan. 21, 1872. 

James,'' (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Salem, N. H., Oct. 7, 
1 8 17, m. Nov. — , 1843, Abbie W. Clark. Re- 
sided at Derry, N. H., in 1844; removed to 
Haverhill previous to 1846, and for a time lived 
at Plaistow, N. H. A shoemaker by trade. He 
was a soldier in the Civil War enlisting Sept. 30, 
1 861 in Co. F, 17th Regt. Mass. Vol., serving 
two years and eight months. He d. Aug. 23, 
1881. 

Children. 

I. George E. 8, b. in Derry, N. H., Sept. 29, 
1 844, m. 1st, Sarah Jordan of Saco, Me. ; m. 
2d, Mary E. Loud of Denmark, Me. He 
served two years in the Civil War in Co. F, 



140 GENEALOGY OF 



17th Regt. Mass. Vol. A resident of Lynn 
in 1897 ; a shoemaker. 

2. Charles H. 8, b. in Haverhill, Mass., April 8, 

1846, m. Adaline Marden of Greenland, 
N. H. ; m. 2d, Mary Sweeny of Homestead, 
Penna. Served two years in the Civil War ; 
was in Co. F, 17th Regt. Mass. Vol.; dis- 
charged in 1863 ; re-enlisted in Co. D, ist 
Mass. Cav. ; served till the close of war ; 
residence. Homestead, Penna. ; a detective. 

3. John W. 8, b. March 16, 1848. Soldier in 

Civil War; enlisted in Co. A, 4th Mass. 
Cav. ; d. at Richmond, Va., Dec. 24, 1865. 

4. James A. 8, b. March 30, 1850, m. Mary E. 

Worster of Elliot, Me. 

5. Emma F. 8, b. Jan. it, 1852, m. J. Marcel- 

lus Smith of Haverhill, Mass. 

6. Frank H. 8, b. in Plaistow, N. H., Dec. 

12, 1857, d. Feb. 6, 1870. 

7. Richard A. 8, b. Feb. 12, 1859, m. Florence 

Davis, of Boston, Mass. ; residence Home- 
stead, Penna. ; a printer. 

Robert,^ (Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,^ John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. June 6, 1820, m. Dec. 25, 
i860, Sarah J. Moore of Parsonfield, Me. 
A shoemaker by trade ; retired and a resident of 



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Haverhill. Five children d. young. One dau., 
Ida F. 8, b. Jan. 7, 1867, ^- Nov. 19, 1889, 
Neal J. Taylor of Bridgeport, Conn. ; she m. 2d, 
Nov. II, 1896, Herbert F. Sheldon, of Stone- 
ham, Mass. One dau. Dorothy 9, b. June 21, 
1891. 

Homer Hine,^ (see memoir p. 177) (Aaron,^ 
John, ^ Samuel,* John,^ Robert," Walter,^) b. in 
New Haven, Vt., April i, 1810, m. ist, in Wind- 
sor, Vt., May, 1837, Jane E., dau. of Edward 
Campbell, m. 2d, in New York City, Septem- 
ber 4, 1849, Margaret E. Dunbar. 

Children by First Marriage. 

1. Helen 8, b. July 4, 1839. Is a gifted writer. 

2. Mary 8, b. 1840, d. July 16, 1846. 

3. Anna 8, b. 1842, d. Jan. 15, 1847. 

Children by Second Marriage. 

I. Katharine Dunbar 8, b. in New York City, 
Oct. 22, 1852, m. Sept. 29, 1884, John G. 
Dunscomb, who was born in Halle, Ger- 
many, in which country his family were 
traveling at the time. His ancestry runs 
back to Bermuda, his father, Edward Duns- 
comb, and his mother, Mary Seon, having 
been born there. The ceremony occurred 



142 GENEALOGY OF 



at the Brick Presbyterian Church, 37th Street 
and Fifth Avenue, New York City, and was 
performed by the Rev. Lucius Curtis, D. D., 
of Hartford, Ct., (a relative of the bride) 
and the Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D., Pas- 
tor of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Duns- 
comb lived in Saginaw, Michigan, about five 
years, then in Brooklyn, N. Y., and now live 
in Summit, N. J. 

Children. 

1. Margaret Stuart 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., 

Jan. 26, 1886. 

2. Cecil 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 23, 1887. 

3. John Carol 9, b. in Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 27, 

1889. 

4. Godefroi 9, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 27, 

1892. 

2. Homer Hine, Jr., 8, b. at Willow Tree, N. Y., 
Jan. 30, 1855. He was educated at the 
Chandler School, Hanover, N. H. For 
some time he was in southern Florida and 
a town on the east coast was named 
" Stuart " because he was instrumental in 
having the East Coast Line Railroad built 
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LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I43 

lived in Philadelphia where he is a General 
Manager of the Philadelphia House of the 
Fairbanks Co., a concern of extensive in- 
terests having its origin at St. Johnsbury, 
Vt. October 3, 1888, he married Marga- 
ret B. Kenney in Athens, N. Y. The cere- 
mony was performed by the Rev. John H. 
Salisbury, D. D., Pastor of the Trenton, N. J., 
Presbyterian Church. Margaret B. Kenney 
was the daughter of Leander Kenney and 
Ellen B. Howland. The earlier spelling of 
the name was K-e-e-n-e-y and Leander's 
father, James R. Keeney of New London, 
Conn., spelled it thus as shown in the mar- 
riage certificate of his wife, Jane Harris, also 
of New London. Ellen B. Howland traces 
her descent from John Howland of the 
" Mayflower " and in her honor, her grand- 
son. Homer, has taken the name of How- 
land. 

Child. 

I. Homer Howland 9, b. July 5, 1890, in 
Athens, N. Y. 

3. Inglis 8, b. at Willow Tree, N. Y., March 24, 
1859; unmarried and, with his widowed 
mother, is living in Roseneath, N. Y. He 
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144 GENEALOGY OF 



Stewart {infra) and has rendered valuable 
assistance on other branches of the Stewart 
Family. 

Ira Hubbell/ (Aaron,^ John/ Samuel/ John/ 
Robert/ Walter/) b. in New Haven, Vt., Feb. 6, 
i8ii,m. Jan. 7, 1834, Eunice Boyce. Ira H. 
Stewart died while on a business trip to New Or- 
leans, La., — , 1849. Eunice Boyce Stewart died 
Dec. 9, 1852. 

Child. 

I. Ernest B. 8, b. in Berlin, Vt., Sept. 25, 1846, 
m. Annie K. Ansley. He early changed 
the spelling of his name, for he enlisted 
July 16, 1862, in the 9th Vermont Infantry 
under the name of Ernest B. Stuart, credited 
to Bethel, Vt. After the close of hostilities, 
he removed from Vermont and was in Chi- 
cago at the time of the great fire, 1871, 
when he was burned out and lost everything. 
He became a chemist and is still a resident 
of Chicago. 

Children. 

1. Eunice M. 9, b. Dec. 4, 1873, "^- Jo^^ W. 

Beckwith. 

2. Allyn 9, b. June 19, 1877. 



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3. Mable A. 9, b. Oct. 11, 1883. 

Dugald/ (Ira/ John/ Samuel/ John/ Robert/ 
Walter/) b. in Middlebury, Vt., Sept. 26, 1821, 
m. Sophia C. Allen, dau. of Dr. George C. Allen 
of Burlington, Vt., Jan. 26, 1857. She was b. in 
Burlington, Sept. 21, 1836. 

Dugald was a lawyer and filled many official 
positions and was becoming a man of great prom- 
inence in the State when he was carried off by 
pneumonia, March 30, 1870. 

Children. 

1. Dugald S., Jr., 8, b. in Middlebury Vt., Aug. 

18, 1857 ; graduated from Middlebury Col- 
lege in 1 879 ; died unmarried in Middlebury, 
Vt., Sept. 23, 1886. 

2. John Hubbell 8, b. in Middlebury Vt., 

March 13, i860, and now a merchant there; 

m. July 15, 1885, Lucia Sutton, b. in 

Stowe, Vt. 

Children. 

1. Dugald 9, b. in Middlebury, Vt., Sept. 27, 

1887, now at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass. 

2. Benjamin Sutton 9, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 

Jan. I, 1889. 
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146 GENEALOGY OF 



3. George Allen 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
Nov. 23, 1 86 1, and now living with his 
widowed mother in Middlebury, Vt. 

John Wolcott/ (Ira,^ John/ Samuel,^ John/ 
Robert/ Walter/) b. Nov. 25, 1825, in Middle- 
bury, Vt., m. Emma, dau. of Philip Battell, Esq., 
then residing in Middlebury, Vt. Emma (Bat- 
tell) Stewart was b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 5, 
1837, and d. in Boston, Mass., March 19, 
1 900. Mr. Stewart has been a man of great prom- 
inence. He has been a delegate to the Na- 
tional Republican Conventions since i860 and 
Governor of the State in 1870, 1871 and 1872. 
Member of Congress many terms. Director of 
Railroads, Trustee, etc. 

Children. 

1. Emma Battell 8, b. March 14, 1863. 

2. Philip Battell 8, b. Jan. 29, 1 864 ; graduated at 

Yale, 1886, m. in York, Maine, Sept. 13, 
1893, Sarah Frances Cowles of Chicago, 111., 
and now resides in Colorado Springs, Colo. 

Child. 

I. John Wolcott 2d, 9, b. Aug. 11, 1895,111 
Boston, Mass. 



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3 

4 



^ 



Robert Forsyth 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
Sept. 17, 1871, d. Dec. 1880. 

Anna Jessica 8, b. in Middlebury, Vt., 
Sept. 17, 1871. 

5. John Wolcott, Jr., 8, b. Jan. 1873, d. 

July, 1874. 

Jehial S.,^ (Samuel,^ Samuel,^ Samuel,"* John.,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. i, 
1818 (old Bible says 18 19). His educational 
advantages were meagre, and his early life was 
spent on his father's farm; m. Jan. 12, 1850, 
Sophia Thomas of Bangor, N. Y. Oct. 14, 1856, 
they settled near the outskirts of Cleveland and 
kept a hotel or road house as it was called there 
and here he remained four years. He then 
moved to Cleveland and was employed as a com- 
mission merchant for some years, when he re- 
moved to Oil Creek, and engaged in the oil busi- 
ness, and later dealt in real estate, making and 
losing a fortune. His natural turn of mind was 
astronomical study and with proper training he 
would have been a success in that work. He d. 
Aug. 28, 1 89 1. Shed, in Chicago, March 8, 1895. 

Children. 

1. Jehial H. 8, b. April 4, 1851. 

2. Marshal R. 8, b. Oct. 17, 1 859, unmarried. 



148 , GENEALOGY OF 



He was educated in the Cleveland public 
schools, afterwards attending Oberlin College. 
He has been a salesman and actor, and is a 
resident of N. Y. City. 

Effie S. 8, b. Feb. 17, 1863, like her brothers, 
was educated in the public schools of Cleve- 
land. At an early age she developed a 
talent for music which was fostered by her 
mother and was given all the advantages her 
means would allow. Being obliged by ill- 
ness to leave school after a year's absence it 
was decided to send her to Chicago to begin 
her studies for a professional life as she re- 
fused absolutely the idea of becoming a school 
teacher. She lived a year there keeping 
house for her two brothers while pursuing 
her studies there. She went to Pittsburg 
and took care of herself the first year by ob- 
taining the second best church position in 
that city. There also she made her first 
appearance in opera " Norma," when a great 
future was predicted for her. After two years 
she went to New York and commenced at once 
her professional career, singing in concert, ora- 
torio and opera with much success. But as life 
was not complete without a term of study in 
Europe, an opportunity was given her in 
1889 to go to Paris, though she had to relin- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I49 



quish her position as soprano soloist of the 
5th Ave. Cathedral, N. Y. She remained 
in Paris 2^ years learning French and eigh- 
teen operas, when by the death of her father 
she was obliged to seek her living, so she 
turned towards London where she soon won 
recognition and joined the Carl Rosa Opera 
Company, in which she was very successful, 
as well as in concert and oratorio. Having 
lost her father, and her mother at the point 
of death, she left all her future and hurried 
home to ease the aching heart of a lone 
mother, thereby losing the promised goal of 
her life. She has remained in this country 
since making a name for herself in all 
branches of her art. 

Charles B.,"^ (John C.,^ John,^ Joseph,* John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Fort Edward, N. Y., 
Dec. 1 6, 1834, m. Jane T. Marvin, of Troy, 
N. Y. From 1 863 to 1 864 he was connected with 
the hardware house of Warren, Hart, and Lesley 
and their successors J. M. Warren & Co., of 
New York City. In the fall of 1864 he removed 
to Brooklyn and was connected with an old es- 
tablished hardware house in that city, but failing 
health led him to take a trip to Virginia in 
March, 1869, which resulted in his purchasing a 



150 GENEALOGY OF 



farm in Culpepper County (near the then Virginia 
Midland R. R.), midway between Culpepper 
Court House and Orange Court House. The 
tract contained 337 acres, the last homestead of 
Hon. Daniel F. Stoughten, a descendant of 
Capt. Stoughten of the Revolution, who was 
granted a large tract of land by the Government 
for his services during the Revolutionary War. 
It was across this farm the Northern troops 
charged the Rebels at the Battle of Cedar Moun- 
tain, or more properly Stoughten's Mountain. 
The farm when he bought it was without build- 
ings or fences, having been devastated by both 
armies. Several years were spent building, mak- 
ing fence, improving and cleaning up generally, 
hoping for good returns, which never materialized, 
owing to the impoverished condition of the 
soil, the result of the old style of Virginia farm- 
ing, merely striving to raise corn and bacon to 
feed their slaves, wherein their available cash was 
invested. His neighbors treated him very coldly 
and looked upon him with suspicion, for which, 
he says, " They were excusable for no one could 
realize their losses except by personal experience." 
But to use his own words : " They gradually 
learned that ' Yankee Stewart ' was a decent sort 
of chap, and if one can believe surface indications 
they were sincerely sorry when that same Yankee 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I5I 

went back North." He made many friends, and 
he looks back to that period of fourteen years' 
residence in old Virginia with many pleasant 
recollections. He now resides at Glens Falls, 
N. Y., engaged in the coal business. 

Children. 
I. Charles M. 8, b. Troy, N. Y., May 24, 1859. 
Engineer on Boston and Maine R. R. 
Residence, Mechanicsville, N. Y. ; m. Ida 
B. Moore, of Richmond, Va. 

Children. 

1. John M. 9, b. Oct. 27, 1879. A graduate 

of Mount Hermon, 1904. 

2. Sadie 9, b. March 15, 1882. 

3. Susan 9, b. March 26, 1885 (0- 

4. George W. 9, b. Dec. 25, 1883 (?) dec. 

5. Lillian V. 9, b. Dec. 4, 1887. 

2. Ella V. 8, b. Oct. 2, i860, d. Aug. 2, 1886. 

3. Clement 8, b. Aug. 2, 1862. Drowned, June, 

1879. 

4. George W. 8, b. d. in infancy. 

5. Lillian 8, b. March 21, 1866, d. Aug. 28, 

1886. 

6. Henrietta 8, b. d. in infancy. 



152 GENEALOGY OF 



7. Mary 8, b. • Culpepper, Va., d. in infancy. 

8. Wallace A. 8, b. August 16, 1874, electrical 

worker, Glens Falls ; m. Lena Adams of 
Glens Falls. 

Children. 

1. Wallace C. 9, b. 1900. 

2. Donald G. 9, b. 1902. 

9. Bessie E. 8, b. Dec. 27, 1879, m. Nov. 19, 
1902, Louis F. Maynard, Glens Falls. 

10. Donald P. 8, b. May 16, 1881; hospital 
steward, U. S. Army, Luzon, Philippine 
Islands. 

James R.,*^ (John C.,^ John,^ Joseph,* John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Fort Edward, N. Y., 
July 21, 1847, ^- ^^ Washington, D. C, Aug. 16, 
1873, Grace V. Bushang of Virginia, b. July 7, 
1853. Subsequent to 1869 he joined his brother 
in Virginia and worked at farming. After his 
marriage he removed to Western Virginia and re- 
sided there until 1888. He is still a farmer, and 
is now a resident of Glens Falls. 

Children. 

I. Merch B. 8, b. in Culpepper, Va., June 24, 
1875. ^ graduate of West Point; served 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 53 

through "Spanish-American" War; was 
promoted to captaincy and now located at 
Governor's Island, New York Bay. 

2. Arthur B. 8, b. Feb. 13, 1881 ; enlisted in 

Light Artillery, July, 1900 ; promoted to 
sergeant ; now stationed at Fort Carly, Wash. 

3. George V. 8, b. March 2, 1885 ; at Annapo- 

lis Naval Academy. 

4. Claude A. 8, b. June 9, 1887. 

5. Nita G. 8, b. Feb. 15, 1892, in Glens Falls, 

N. Y. 

6. Ruth V. 8, b. Aug. 27, 1895. 

Eighth Generation. 

William,^ (Amos,^ David, ^ William,^ Charles,^ 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. Sept. 16, 1820, m. 
Nov. 26, 1851, Mary C. Chapin, dau. of Erastus 
Chapin of Leyden, d. July 30, 1895. -^^ ^^^ 
passed his entire life upon the farm where his 
grandfather settled about 1793. He attended the 
district schools and helped his father in carrying 
on the farm until the latter's decease, after which 
the estate was managed by himself and brother. 
" He has been a tireless worker all his life and 
eminently successful, being considered by his 
fellow-townsmen to be one of the most prosper- 
ous farmers in the neighborhood. Mr. Stewart 



154 GENEALOGY OF 



has long been prominently identified with local 
public affairs, having served the town for many 
years as selectman and assessor, and has been a 
Representative to the State Legislature ; he is also 
an active member of the Methodist Church." 

Child (Adopted). 

Edith 9, b. Sept. 20, 1870, m. Herbert Root, 
and has two children. 

David,' (Amos,^ David,' William,^ Charles,^ 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, Mass., 
July 29, 1827. He received his education in the 
district schools of his native town. He is re- 
membered as a boy of exuberant spirit and ac- 
tivity and his boyish pranks are still told by his 
old schoolmates. 

He was a contractor and builder, and followed 
that business for over forty years. He was one 
of the carpenters that helped to build Washington 
Hall, Greenfield, Mass. In 1855, he had a 
touch of Western fever and emigrated to Wis- 
consin, locating in Oshkosh, where he remained 
about one year, during which time he buried his 
first wife, Feb. 15, 1856. He then returned to 
Washington, Macomb Co., Mich., where he met 
and married, Oct. i, 1857, Mary, daughter of 
Louis and Nancy (Knapp) Davis of Washington, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 55 

and they resided there for some years. The last 
12 years of his life he spent with his son, Haven 
C. Stewart in the Upper Peninsula at Sidnaw, 
where he died Aug. 31, 1901, and was taken to 
Macomb Co., for burial. His 2d wife died 
July 23, 1884. 

Children. 

1. Haven C.9, b. June 25, 1858, m. May 9, 1888, 

Josephine R., b. in Lowell, Mich., Feb. 15, 
1858, dau. of Samuel Moye, who was b. 
in Switzerland, and his wife, Mary Myres, 
b. in Brantford, Can. Mr. Stewart is a 
resident of Sidnaw, Mich. He is postmas- 
ter, and proprietor of " The Houghton," 
the leading hotel of the place. He also 
deals in harvesters, mowers, discdrills, bug- 
gies, carts, plows and harrows. In short he 
is a " hustler.'* 

Children. 

1. Marie 10, b. in Marquette, Mich., August 5, 

1890, d. Sept. I, 1 89 1. 

2. Rex H. 10, b. Dec. 7, 1891. 

3. David G. 10, b. at Sidnaw, Aug. 26, 1896. 

2. Ellen M. 9, b. June 26, 1861, m. June 24, 

1883, Wm. Latta. 



156 GENEALOGY OF 

3. Kate J. 9, b. Jan. 24, 1864, m. Jan. 24, 1894, 

Walter Phelps. 

4. Mollie M. 9, b. Aug. 11, 1869, ^- i^ Evart, 

Mich., Sept. 26, 1894, Geo. Engel. 

Amos,^ (Amos/ David/ WilHam/ Charles/ 
John/ Robert/ Walter/) b. in Colrain, May 29, 
1833, m. April 14, 1858, Mary Cone, b. in Marl- 
boro, Vt., Oct. I, 1836, dau. of Jesse and Abi- 
gail (Nelson) Cone. The following is from the 
Biographical Review. " He attended the schools 
of his native town in early years, and at the age 
of eighteen, under the influence of the gold fever, 
made an overland trip to California with an ox 
team, leaving Greenfield in April, 1851, and ar- 
riving at his destination in October. He went 
immediately to the mines of Sonoma County, 
where he worked for three years ; his expectations 
of sudden wealth, however, like those of many 
others, failing of realization. He returned East 
by the way of the Isthmus ; but, before settling 
down in his native place, he went to Wisconsin, 
where he remained for a year and a half, at the 
end of which time, not altogether satisfied with 
that part of the country, he returned to Colrain, 
and in 1857 purchased the farm that he now oc- 
cupies. He is extensively engaged in farming 
and fruit growing, having a productive orchard 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 57 

which yields over four hundred barrels of apples 
yearly ; he also devotes considerable attention to 
dairying interests. He is a republican in politics, 
has served as selectman and assessor, and special 
county commissioner for several terms." 

Children. 

1. Jennie E. 9, b. Jan. 16, 1859, d. Jan. 19, 1875. 

2. Abbie M. 9 , b. Nov. 25, 1866, m. W. T. 

Holton, d. in Redlands, Cal., Jan. 8, 1891. 

3. Charles A. 9, b. April 14, 1871, m. Nov. 30, 

1904, Sadie D. Miller of Colrain. He was 
for several years employed as superintendent 
on a fruit ranch in Redlands, Cal. He now 
resides with his parents in Colrain. 

George,^ (Amos," David,^ William,^ Charles,^ 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Colrain, June 29, 
1843, m. Maria L., b. Oct. 31, 1841, dau. of 
William Stewart of Gloversville, N. Y., and re- 
sided on the old homestead at Colrain until his 
death April 5, 1888. She is now a resident of 
Greenfield. 

Children. 

I. Henry 9, b. Sept. 26, 1874. Served during 
the late " Spanish-American " War; enlisted 
May 3, 1898 ; was wagoner, and was in the 
Battle of El Caney, July i, 1898 ; under 



158 GENEALOGY OF 



fire at San Juan hill, July 2, 1898, and at the 
surrender of Santiago, July 11, 1898. When 
Gen. Ludlow's horse was shot from under 
him, young Stewart was sent to take the saddle 
and equipments from the animal. He d. in 
Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 23, 1899, from the 
effects of hard service in Cuba. 

2. Frank G. 9, b. Dec. 16, 1875, d. March 25, 

1876. 

3. Rose M. 9, b. June 27, 1877. 

William F.,« (William,^ David,^ William,^ 
Charles,^ John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. Dec. 29, 
1825, m. 1st, 1849, Sarah Howard; they had a 
daughter, and both wife and child d. from spotted 
fever. He m. 2d, Hester Dobbs of New York. 
He served in the Civil War in Company C, 
115 Regt., N. Y. Vol., d. Aug. 31, 1864, at 
David's Island, N. Y. Harbor, and buried in the 
Union Grounds at Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long 
Island. 

Child. 

I. Charles 9, b. . A resident of Glovers- 

ville, N. Y. 

F. Eugene,^ (Samuel,^ John,^ John,^ John,* 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Buffalo Grove, 111., 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 59 



Aug. 15, 1 841, m. March 27, 1866, Lucinda 
Sprague, b. July 15, 1846. He enlisted Jan. 4, 
1864, in the 13th Wisconsin Infantry, Capt. G. 
U. Briggs' Co., Wm. P. Lyons, Col. In giving 
his army experience, he says : " We were in many 
skirmishes with bushwhackers and guerilla bands, 
and in two hard fought battles ; the first was at 
Decatur, Ala., Oct. 26, 1 864, and the next at Nash- 
ville, Tenn., Dec. 15 and 16, 1864; ^Y regiment 
was in the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 4th Army 
Corps, under Gen. Wood. At Nashville we 
warmed their jackets up in good shape and com- 
pletely * hustled ' them. Soon after the battle we 
were reviewed by Gen. Thomas and the whole 
Corps sent to New Orleans ; from there we crossed 
the Gulf of Mexico, and from there into Texas, 
where we were mustered out, Dec. 1 8, 1865. The 
regiment stands on record at the State Capitol, 
Wis., as doing the most marching and guard 
duty of any regiment in the State. I think the 
closest call I had during my army life was down 
on the Tennessee river. Our lines were on the 
east side and the ' Johnnies ' were on the west 
side of the river. Five of us from my company 
had been doing patrol duty and several times had 
crossed the river, while out on a lark, and one 
night we had crossed as usual when suddenly the 
Rebs sprang up on all sides of us, ordered us to 



l6o GENEALOGY OF 



surrender, and fired buckshot right and left ; they 
did not hit us the first round and we ran for the 
river, but the fellow that was nearest me threw 
his hand up to his shoulder and said * Something 
has stung me.' I told him he was shot, for I 
could see the blood there, but he ran as far as he 
could and then hid in the bushes. I told him if 
I got back safely I would watch my chance and 
come back and rescue him. The rest of us swam 
the river and were soon again under the protec- 
tion of the Stars and Stripes, and as soon as we 
could we went back and got our comrade and 
reached our lines all right." 

He followed farming in Wisconsin and later 
removed to Iowa where he followed the same 
calling until his health failed. He now resides at 
Clear Lake, Iowa. 

Children. 

1. John H. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., May 19, 

1867. 

2. Ira E. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., Sept. 23, 1868. 

The above are thrifty business men of Clear 
Lake ; they run the " bus and dray " business, 
and are the only ice dealers in the city. 

3. Nelia M. 9, b. April 7, i87i,m. Jan. i, 1896, 

Westley Collins. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS l6l 

4. Roy D. 9, b. Clear Lake, Dec. 22, 1884, 
graduate of Clear Lake High School, 1904. 

James L.,^ (Samuel,^ John,'^ John,^ John,* 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Albion, Wis., 
March 18, 1848, m. in Milton, Oct. 2, 1869, C. 
Ellen Hall, b. Sept. 4, 1853. He took charge 
of the homestead at Milton, Wis., and resided 
there until about 1901, when he sold his farm 
and removed to Johnstown and resides with his 
son-in-law. 

Child. 

I. Hettie M. 9, b. in Milton, Wis., Nov. 10, 
1870, m. in Milton, Oct. 6, 1892, Peter J. 
McFarlane, b. in Richmond, Wis., Feb. 25, 
1868. ■ 

Child. 

I. George S. 10, b. in Johnstown, Wis., Aug. 18, 
1898. 

James L/ (Ira,^ John,^ John,^ John,* John,^ 
Robert,^ Walter,^) b. in Shelburne, May 29, 1830, 
m. Nov. 24, 1852, Mary E., b. Nov. 11, 1836, 
dau. of Aaron and Harriet Field. After the 
death of his father he was brought up by strangers 
and experienced the hardships that usually fall to 
1 1 



I 62 GENEALOGY OF 



the orphan, yet he was never known to complain. 
His youthful days were brightened by a natural 
love for music, and he became a fine singer and 
master of the violin. In 1856 they went to Wis- 
consin, and after a short experience there at farm- 
ing returned to Bernardston, Mass., and being a 
natural mechanic, he took up the trade of carpen- 
ter and wagon maker, soon after moving to South 
Deerfield where he followed his trade successfully 
until 1862, when he enlisted as sergeant in the 
52d Regt. Mass. Vol. for nine months. His 
Chaplain in speaking of him said, " Sergeant 
Stewart never swears, but vows and vums." He 
participated in the Battle of Baton Rouge and 
much skirmishing in the Battle of Indian Bend, 
and the Forty Days' Siege of Port Hudson. 
Here he found time to exercise his fine mechan- 
ical genius in carving numerous fancy articles 
from bone and southern woods, which he brought 
home as souvenirs of army life in the fall of 1863. 
He was mustered out of army service, and again 
took up his residence and trade in South Deer- 
field. About 1869 he joined his relatives in 
Minnesota, erected himself a residence on the 
beautiful shore of Anoka Lake and d. in Lin- 
wood, Minn., Aug. 11, 1872. His widow m. 
Denison W. Green, and d. July 2, 1888. Mr. 
Green d. July 22, 1890. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 63 



Children. 

1. George E. 9, b. Bernardston, Mass., June 3, 

1855, d. in Minn., April 15, 1876. 

2. Hattie H. 9, b. South Deerfield (?) May 4, 

1861, d. June 8, 1861. 



4 



Sylvanus,^ (John,^ Abraham,^ Robert,^ John, 
John,^ Robert,'^ Walter,^) b. April 14, 1840, m. 
Sept. 6, 1865, Mary E. Washburn of Natick, 

Mass. She d. He m. 2d, Oct. 8, 1885, 

Bertha Eastman. In early life he was a hatter by 
trade ; later a shoe cutter. When the Great Re- 
bellion broke out he enlisted in N. H. 1st Regt. ; 
served three months ; re-enlisted and served 
three years, and was discharged at the close of the 
war ; he then engaged in the restaurant business 
and has now retired and resides in Haverhill. 

Child by First Marriage. 

I. Ernest L. 9, b. Feb. 27, 1867. 

Child by Second Marriage. 
I. Effie W. 9, b. Nov. 14, 1886. 



Warren A.,^ (John,*^ Abraham,^ Robert,^ John,* 
John,^ Robert,^ Walter,^) b. March 2, 1846, m. 
Nov. 19, 1868, Nellie A. Carr of Chester, N. H. 
She was killed by lightning July 29, 1885. 



164 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

1. Florence E. 9, b. Dec. 25, 1872. 

2. Lizzie G. 9, b. Dec. 19, 1876. 

Jehial H.,^ (Jehial S.,^ Samuel,^ Samuel,^ Sam- 
uel,* John/ Robert;^ Walter/) b. April 4, 1851, 
m. Feb. 2, 1889, Alice Hazeniiag, b. Sept. 25, 
1856. He was educated in the Cleveland public 
schools, afterwards attending Oberlin College. 
He spent many years as a traveling man, and for 
over twenty years has resided in Chicago, where 
he is engaged in the oil and paint business. 

Children. 

1. Frank 9, b. March 8, 1891. 

2. Samuel 9, b. June 9, 1893. 

3. Effie 9, b. Feb. 12, 1895. 



MEMOIR 

- OF — 

Captain John Stewart of Middlebury, Ver- 
mont ; of his son Aaron Stewart and 
Grandson Homer H. Stuart. 

John Stewart was born at Londonderry, N. H., 
September 12, 1745. He told his grandson 
Homer H. Stuart that having lost his father 
when he was about five years old he went to Col- 
rain, Mass., to live with an uncle, Samuel Stewart. 
In 1759, when fourteen, he enlisted in the French 
and Indian War and marched into the Province 
of New York, where he took part in a fight with 
the Indians at Oriskany. His company served 
under General Jeffrey Amherst and he was with 
it at the taking of Montreal in 1760. After the 
close of this war we find him a member of the 
Congregational Church at Bennington, Vt., and 
also enrolled in " The Green Mountain Corps," 
which defended the Vermont people from the 
New Yorkers who laid claim to Western Ver- 
mont under Grants. He took part in the events 

(«65) 



I 66 GENEALOGY OF 



of the stirring year of 1 775, serving under General 
Montgomery at the second capture of Montreal, 
November 13, 1775, and serving in the Revolu- 
tionary War under Colonel Joseph McCracken. 
After the war he was addressed as " Captain 
Stewart." Whether this title came to him by 
regular commission or was accorded by courtesy of 
the day, is uncertain, but judging from his char- 
acter it is scarcely probable he would, unless really 
entitled, have allowed its use. Moreover he had 
a sword — usually the badge of a commissioned 
officer. 

When the Revolutionary War ended, he settled 
at Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, where for 
ten years he kept an inn, called " Mount Inde- 
pendence House." This inn was destroyed by 
fire in 1 794 and he moved to a farm at Burling- 
ton, not far from Cooperstown, N. Y. 

Between 1806 and 181 1 he resided at New 
Haven, Vt., and from the latter year until his 
death, July 31, 1829, at Middlebury, Vt. 

While Captain Stewart was rather reticent, as a 
rule, he was less reserved with his grandson. 
Homer H. Stuart. Occasionally winter evenings, 
by the large open fireplace, he would relate events 
of his own childhood and adventures that had be- 
fallen him and his brothers in youth and manhood. 
Often in later years did Homer wish that he had 






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taken the precaution to write down these reminis- 
cences of his grandfather and great uncles in the 
French and Indian War — with Rogers' Rangers — 
in the forays of the Green Mountain Corps — in 
the Revolution, as well as further West where 
William Stewart, the companion of Daniel Boone 
lost his life at the Battle of Blue Licks. But the 
young, listening to such hearthside narrations, 
are prone to forget how much personal and family 
history will pass away irrecoverably with the nar- 
rator, and thus it was with him. 

Captain Stewart had a distinct remembrance of 
his aged great-grandmother. He used to relate to 
Homer her stories of the family's persecutions by 
" Bonnie Dundee," in Scotland. Tradition in 
the family states that she (a Forsyth) was the 
widow of Robert Stuart who was born in Scotland 
in 1655, and died in 17 14. She accompanied 
her son John Stuart, (the proprietor) born in 
Edinburgh about 1682, to Londonderry, N. H., 
and survived him. As Captain Stewart was born 
in 1745, she must have been living as late as 
1750 or 1752. 

Homer H. Stuart once remarked that the char- 
acter " Henry Morton of Milnwood," in Sir Wal- 
ter Scott's Romance " Old Mortality," reminded 
him of Robert Stuart as portrayed in these tales 
of Captain Stewart's great-grandmother. For 



I 68 GENEALOGY OF 



Robert, according to these stories, fought against 
Monmouth and in consequence was exiled and de- 
prived of his estate. With the tradition of this 
" lost Stuart Estate " Homer was familiar, but 
merely laughed when urged to seek its recovery. 
His own good sense told him it was better to 
serve his day and generation in useful work than 
to dream of recovering these escheated lands. 

Captain Stewart's sense of honor was keen. A 
pension was tendered him for his military services, 
but he replied, *^ I want no pay for having served 
my country." The evening before he passed 
away he sent for his grandson to come to his 
bedside. For some minutes he silently regarded 
the young man. Finally he said, " Homer, I am 
going to bid you good-by now." Then giving 
him some good advice as to his course in life, he 
tenderly and affectionately pressed his hand in 
farewell. 

Captain Stewart's character commanded the 
respect of all. Rigidly upright and of unswerv- 
ing conviction, he was a worthy descendant of 
his Covenantor ancestor Robert, " a man who 
would die for a principle or a prejudice " and ut- 
terly devoid of fear. After the close of the Revo- 
lutionary War the country was for some time in 
a distracted condition and traveling dangerous. 
Late one night, passing a dismantled house, he 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 169 

heard groans. He reined in his horse to hsten. 
The sound came from the house. Dismounting 
he tied his horse and groped into the ruins. 
Guided by the sound he felt his way down a 
rickety stairway to the cellar. There two glow- 
ing eyes met his own. He stood quietly until the 
groaning was renewed, and then slowly advanced 
until his outstretched hand encountered a sheep ! 
The creature had tumbled into the cellar and had 
been disabled. Into such environment not many 
men would have dared to enter unarmed. 

He attended the lecture of Lyman Beecher 
when the latter went through Vermont on his 
temperance crusade, and became convinced that 
it was morally wrong to use liquor. He was then 
eighty, and for some years had taken daily a small 
glass of Medford rum. He ordered the cask 
brought out and emptied in the barnyard. 
Through some oversight its inspiring contents 
flowed into the pig-sty and soon there was great 
revelry in the piggery ! 

Captain Stewart was very hospitable and lived 
well, having everything of the best. His horses 
were noted as carefully selected animals. He 
was an exemplary Christian and a pillar of the 
Middlebury Church. In person he was some- 
what over six feet, well built, but not corpulent, 
abundant white hair, fair complexion and a strong- 



170 GENEALOGY OF 



featured face. His carriage was erect and dig- 
nified. 

Mrs. John Stewart (Huldah Hubbell) was the 
daughter of Elnathan Hubbell and Mehitable 
Sherwood. She was born at Stratford, Connecti- 
cut, May 20, 1752, and died at Middlebury, Vt., 
August 24, 1847. 

The late Rev. Samuel G. Coe, who was her 
pastor, described her as always most elegantly at- 
tired in black silk, and said that she was usually 
alluded to as " Lady Stewart." She was de- 
scended from Richard Hubbell and also from 
Captain Matthew Sherwood. 

The following is the obituary notice written by 
her friend, the scholarly Philip Battell, Esq., and 
which appeared in one of the newspapers at the 
date of her decease. 

" In this place, on the 24th inst., Mrs. Huldah 
Stewart, aged 95 years. 

Mrs. Stewart was born in 1752 and was the 
third daughter of Mr. Elnathan Hubbell, then a 
resident of Stratford, Conn. At an early age she 
accompanied her father's family to Bennington in 
this state, where March 22nd, 1772, she was 
united in marriage to John Stewart, with whom 
the providence of God permitted her to live 57 
years. 

As her father removed to this State when the 
difficulties between the inhabitants of Vermont 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I7I 

and the citizens of New York were occurring ; 
and as, some years after, the Revolutionary 
struggle came on, and the storm of war swept 
over that part of the country where her husband 
was residing, Mrs. Stewart's earlier days were 
days of peril, privation and change. Her husband 
was at the taking of Montreal under Montgom- 
ery ; at the battle of Bennington, her father, 
husband, and two of her brothers were on the 
field of conflict. As Mr. Stewart at the time of 
the latter engagement was residing in Bennington, 
and his house was no great distance from the 
battle ground, Mrs. Stewart often described the 
intense agony she experienced while listening to 
the roar of cannon, and seeing the wagon loads of 
the dead and wounded carried past her door, lest 
some of her friends might have fallen. 

Mrs. Stewart resided successively in Benning- 
ton, Cambridge, Pawlet, Ticonderoga, Orwell, 
Burlington (Otsego Co.), N. Y., New Haven, 
Vt., and Middlebury. 

She became a resident of Middlebury in 1812. 
She first made a public profession of religion in 
1800, while living in Burlington, N. Y. 

Mrs. Stewart was a woman of uncommon 
energy and decision of character, and the vicissi- 
tudes through which she passed in early life de- 
veloped the more this trait in her mind. No one 
could converse with her, and witness the lighting 
up of her countenance, venerable with the lines of 
a century of years marked upon it, and not be 
convinced of this fact. 



172 GENEALOGY OF 



Mrs. Stewart was a fine specimen of cheer- 
fulness in old age. The pains and infirmities of 
her advancing years were severe, but she endured 
them with fortitude and patience and her custom- 
ary vivacity seemed never to forsake her. 

Mrs. Stewart was a consistent and exemplary 
Christian. She was a witness to the truth of the 
declaration, that the hoary head when found in 
the ways of righteousness is a crown of glory. 
She loved the word of God and to draw spiritual 
refreshment from its well of salvation. Her clos- 
ing days were illumined with the hope of a blessed 
immortality. 

* Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. 
Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from 
their labors ; and their works do follow them ! ' " 

Aaron, the eldest son of Captain Stewart, born 
at Bennington, Vt., March 22, 1775, was named 
after his uncle Aaron Hubbell, but did not use 
the " Hubbell " in his signature ; sometimes in 
boyhood he wrote his name "Aron." He was 
a man of fine physique, standing six feet in his 
stockings and weighing 190 pounds when only 
sixteen, was well educated and his penmanship 
was beautiful. He had many social gifts and was 
everywhere a favorite. Down to the outbreak of 
the Second War with England he was engaged 
in teaching at various places, Charleston, N. Y., 
Longmeadow, Mass., Rutland, Vt., etc. He 






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married at New Haven, Vt., May i6, 1807, 
Selinda Colt. 

Aaron Stewart volunteered in the War of 18 12, 
but his career was brief, and on July 16, 18 13, 
was laid at rest in the Military Cemetery at Sackett 
Harbor, N. Y., known as " Post Madison." 

The following is a letter written shortly before 
his death to his wife at New Haven, Vt. : — 

" NiAGRA, May 15, 1813. 

" Dear Selinda : — 

I have written you two Letters that have been 
worn out in my pocket for want of conveyance, 
but I can put this in the post office here, not 
doubting but you are very anxious to hear from 
me at this time, as your knowledge of the battle 
and taking of York and knowing that I was in 
the engagement would make you solicitous for my 
welfare until you hear from me — I cannot, for 
want of time as well as paper enter into a descrip- 
tion of the Battle — it was contended for with ob- 
stinacy on both sides, but the confusive hurry 
prevented me from realizing the dolorous sight 
of the dead and wounded, the latter of which 
much exceeded the former — By the best accts. I 
can get we had sixty-two killed on the field of 
battle, and 119 wounded, several of whom are 
since dead — the British are supposed to have lost 
more then we did — We are expecting to attack 
the fort opposite here (viz) Fort George — in a few 
days, it is a strong place and they are concentrat- 



174 GENEALOGY OF 



ing all the force they can, so we may expect a 
warm reception, but if the God of battles preserves 
me you shall hear of my fate immediately after 
— With respect to what impressed my mind with 
the greatest burthen is your situation Five hun- 
dred miles now parts us and I know you to be in 
want. I have not as yet rec'd either money or 
clothing. I know your people will not let you 
want, but it was my intention to have left you in 
a state of independency and assisted Charles — I 
pray for a speedy close to the War that myself 
with many other fools may be permitted to return 
to their families, the only place where real com- 
fort is to be taken — Homer and Hubbell — I long 
with all the affection of a father to see you, but if 
that never shall happen, may you find friends here 
that will lead you up to manhood in the habits of 
virtue, temperance, and industry. 

It would be a real pleasure to me to receive a 
letter from you, but I know not to whom to tell 
you to direct it — yet on second thought I wish 
you would, and direct it to Sergeant Stewart of 
Capt. Grafton's Company in the 2ist Reg't of 
Infantry — 

Affectionately yours, 

Mrs. Selinda Stewart. Aaron Stewart. 

May 17th — No alterations since the within 
date — The mail does not start until Thursday 
next — But I shall now close with bidding you 
adieu." 

The following letter was to his brother-in-law, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 75 

Charles Bulkeley Colt. Sometimes the family 
spelled it "Coult" as did Aaron in the present 
instance. 

"Fort Oswego, June 7, 18 13. 

Dear Sir, 

A part of our Company are detailed for guard 
to accompany a small party of some of the prison- 
ers we took at Fort George and are now convey- 
ing them to Greenbush, there to wait until they 
are exchanged — They are 106 in numfcer, stout 
well looking — we have treated them in such a 
manner that they appear attached to us, and some 
have told me that it would be their choice to 
remain with us. — My time is so short, and busi- 
ness is so pressing that it is impossible for me to 
write much, and I have a thousand things I want 
to say, and as many questions to ask — O Charles 
— what scenes I have to pass through — at all 
hours — in all weather — we are obliged to be on 
the alert while we are on the enemy's borders — 
but in battles — O God — to stand and see men 
falling all around and the horrible groans of the 
dying while you are marching over their mangled 
body's — the reflection is more chilling on cool 
deliberation than the fact appears while in action 
— War is a curse — I want to see Lynda and the 
children more than I have words to express — but 
the God of Heaven only knows what my fate will 
be — A soldier who is continually in danger can 
hardly promise himself anything. 

Government neglect me — I have not yet 
drawn my uniform or any money — If I could send 



176 GENEALOGY OF 



home a supply of cash I should feel much more 
easy in mind. I am only Orderly Sergeant, and 
his duty in a moving army is as disagreeable as it 
is fatiguing, his cares are unceasing and his re- 
sponsibility great — I want to hear from you all, 
but know not how you will convey letters on act. 
of our continual moving — I however want you to 
write often — 'Tis now after midnight so after 
apologizing for this hasty scrall 1 shall bid you 
adieu — My kindest love to you all — 

Your friend and Brother, 
Mr. C. B. Coult. A. Stewart." 

Selinda Colt (Mrs. Aaron Stewart), born at 
Montville, Conn., November 8, 1789, was the 
daughter of John Colt and Susanna Bulkeley. 
The latter was a granddaughter of the brilliant 
Colonial Divine, John Bulkeley, who was the 
grandson of Charles Chauncey, President of 
Harvard College. Soon after the death of her 
husband she moved from New Haven to Fayston, 
Vt., and resided with her parents till 1825, when 
she married Elias Wells and thereafter lived at 
Duxbury, Vt., till her death, March 6, i860. 

In early life Homer H. Stuart decided to re- 
vert to the form " S-t-u-a-r-t " used by the family 
in the earlier generations as shown by " Proprietor 
John Stuart's " will and similar records. His 
name came as follows. A certain Homer Hine 
had been a boyhood friend of Aaron Stewart who 





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MRS. SEI.INDA STKW'A RT- WELLS. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 77 

named his oldest son " Homer Hine," after him. 
This friend was the son of Noble Hine and Pa- 
tience Hubbell and was born July 25, 1776, dy- 
ing at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1856. The Hine 
family were great friends of Captain Stewart's 
family and it is probable Noble Stewart (Aaron's 
younger brother) was named after Noble Hine. 

Homer H. Stuart, born April i, 18 10, at New 
Haven, Vt., remarked that the sole recollection 
he had of his father (Aaron Stewart) was sitting 
on the knee of a tall man dressed in uniform and 
that he reached up and played with the large 
buttons on his coat. In later years his mother 
spoke to him of this incident and said his father 
was then bidding her good-bye. From a letter 
which Aaron wrote his father, Capt. Stewart, we 
may fix the date as about March 11, 18 13. In 
the latter part of this year, Mrs. Selinda Stewart, 
left a widow, went to Fayston, Vt., where Homer 
remained a few years. 

His recollections of Fayston always remained 
distinct. Bears were very frequent there and 
lived in the timber above the farms. Except in 
winter they seldom gave trouble. One cold night 
the household was roused by ear-piercing squeals 
from the pigpen. Before his grandfather Colt 
could get out of doors with his musket, a bear 
was seen silhouetted against the snowy hillside 
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dragging a lusty porker. Another time he was 
sitting on a fallen tree picking raspberries and 
looked up to see a great black bear at the other 
end of the tree picking raspberries too ! In the 
little brook beside the house, he amused himself 
in making dams and placing upon them water 
wheels whittled out for him by his uncle Charles 
Colt. Water from this brook was conducted to 
the kitchen where it filled a huge trough made 
from a tree trunk and here were a lot of trout. 
When a guest happened along unexpectedly, all 
that was necessary was to scoop out some of 
these fish and in a short time serve them fried 
with pieces of salt pork. In the log school-house 
near-by he learned his letters and he remarked 
that "1818" was the first date he remembered 
writing on his slate. At this time, from descrip- 
tions which have come down from his mother, he 
was a sturdy little freckled boy with brown eyes 
and tow hair, " homely " as she phrased it. In 
later life so strikingly handsome did he become 
that it was common remark. When the statue 
of the "Typical Puritan" was being designed in 
the early '8o's, St. Gaudens, the artist, was ur- 
gent he should pose. Much is it to be regretted 
that his modesty caused him to decline, not only 
this, but the similar requests of many other artists, 
and we have merely a casual photograph which 



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LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 179 

fails entirely in portraying the delicate peach blos- 
som complexion and abundant silvery hair. 

In 1 8 19, Captain Stewart decided that Homer 
should have a liberal education and he went to 
Middlebury to attend school. In 1828 he en- 
tered Middlebury College. He held a high posi- 
tion in his class without much exertion and made 
a brilliant graduation address in August, 1832. 
After reading law for some months at Spring- 
field, Vt., he received an invitation in 1833 to 
teach at Richmond, Va., and went South via 
Troy. At Albany he saw a railroad for the first 
time and enjoyed a ride behind the primitive loco- 
motive. A few days were passed in the City of 
New York awaiting his vessel's departure and he 
roamed around the city which was to claim so 
much of his life. In 1833 he found the houses 
rather scattered north of Houston Street, while 
Washington Square was merely a field surrounded 
by a picket fence. Northward from the " Parade 
Ground," as the Square was termed, came open 
country with an occasional farmhouse. 

The voyage down the coast to Norfolk was 
devoid of incident. He noted the ante-bellum 
plantations bordering the Chesapeake as the ves- 
sel slowly glided along to City Point near Rich- 
mond and the general features of the James River 
came back to him thirty years later as he traced 



l80 GENEALOGY OF 



the movements of the Army. His stay in Rich- 
mond was brief and in January, 1834, he re- 
turned by way of Washington. He saw very 
Httle of the Capital, merely passing through, quite 
unconscious how often he would be there in its 
later and more stirring years. A stage carried him 
to Relay House where he took the train into Bal- 
timore. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at 
this date extended to Point of Rocks and the 
Washington Branch was not completed till the 
following year. 

Reaching New York he succeeded in getting a 
clerkship in the firm of Rogers, Ketchum & Gros- 
venor, whose city office was at 60 Wall Street. 
The foundry of the firm was at Paterson, N. J., 
and was beginning to manufacture locomotives. 
Down to 1870 it was quite common to come 
across an old style locomotive with " R. K. & G." 
on the steam chest. Under the title of " The 
Rogers Locomotive Works " the establishment 
became celebrated. 

His position here was temporary for he soon 
had a chance to transfer himself upstairs to the 
law office of William Emerson, brother of Ralph 
Waldo Emerson. 

Mr. Stuart used to relate that as soon as Ralph 
Waldo Emerson arrived at the office, he and his 
brother William, tilting their chairs and project- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS l8l 

ing their feet over the window sill into Wall 
Street, wouJd talk hour after hour. Seated as he 
was a few feet away, he could not avoid hearing 
their conversation on those lines of Transcenden- 
talism. Nearly fifty years later he was heard to 
admit to that intimate friend and admirer of 
Emerson, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, that in 
1 834, these lines of conversation did not appeal to 
him. " I simply could not grasp them," he said. 

They were too diaphanous and had not taken 
on that epigrammatic crystallization forming so 
great a charm in Emerson's writings and stamp- 
ing him the Umpire Philosopher. While both 
Mr. Stuart and Mr. Emerson were descendants 
of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley of Concord, 
neither was aware of their kinship. Mutual 
knowledge of the cousinship, far away though it 
was, would have led to better acquaintance and 
have given Mr. Stuart an earlier comprehension 
of Emerson's greatness of intellect ; for Mr. 
Stuart — at least in later years — was an unerring 
critic of a man's mental ability. 

The nursery of Vermont had not prepared 
Mr. Stuart for the meeting with Emerson. Quite 
the contrary. He had been brought up to meas- 
ure men and their moods by the inflexible stand- 
ard of Middlebury as it was in the early eighteen 
hundreds. 



I 82 GENEALOGY OF 

His grandfather — essentially Scotch in mind, 
body and speech, and, by hardship in war, very 
practical — was not in accord with the trend of 
thought beginning to take its rise in Massachu- 
setts. Aaron gave evidence of departure from 
Captain Stewart's standard, doubtless owing to 
the infusion of Puritan blood since the Hubbells 
and Sherwoods were distinctly of this class, hav- 
ing been among Connecticut's earliest settlers. 
But Homer had not come under the influence of 
his father, and was still swayed by the ideas of 
his loved and respected grandsire. Therefore the 
Vermont method of measurement as applied to 
men and things was destined to conflict with, 
and finally give way to, the method taught by 
the broader catholicity which was his Bulkeley- 
Chauncey heritage. This supplanting is not sur- 
prising. Wafted from the past floats the Aura 
of one's forebears and no other result could have 
been predicted — merely the length of time requi- 
site to give the proper maturity which should 
enable him keenly to appreciate Emerson. Ob- 
servation of humanity and profound reflection 
were to train him into this maturity. The train- 
ing was to be on a frontier arena, facing resource- 
ful antagonists — training, drilling him to think 
with utmost clearness and to utter his thought 
with beautiful precision — training, bestowing on 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 83 

him sympathy for the poor and lowly, without 
regard to color, creed or race. 

It is interesting to consider what would have 
been the career of this versatile thinker if his 
formative years had been passed in the galaxy of 
contemporaries who made " Brook Farm " his- 
toric and of whom he was intellectually a peer. 
His capacity for enjoyment of such companion- 
ship was of the highest degree. To have com- 
muned with Hawthorne would have been a joy. 
His intercourse with Nature was not less intimate 
than Thoreau's. A tree to him was adorable. 
Beneath some lofty Weymouth pine he would 
harken to the wind soughing through the boughs 
and say with a smile, " It is singing Wareham." 
That first glimpse of Ocean as his vessel rounded 
Sandy Hook ! Many a time in later years when 
a heavy storm was brewing did he go to Rocka- 
way Beach and spend a day looking out over the 
rollers sweeping shoreward and muse. Watching 
a procession of clouds, the expression of his grave 
face took on a kind of rapture. The poetic was 
the side present to his mind. What friendships 
he would have formed at Concord ! But this was 
not to be. He and Ralph Waldo Emerson were 
fated thus to meet and thus to pass. 

So not being attracted to Emerson his attention 
was turned upon the figure of Aaron Burr. The 



184 GENEALOGY OF 



latter, clad in a cloak of military cut and glancing 
quickly from side to side with glittering eyes as 
he traversed the streets, Mr. Stuart studied with 
deep interest. He listened to the views of con- 
temporaries of Burr and Hamilton and came to 
the conclusion that had the duel resulted in the 
death of Burr, then Hamilton would have suf- 
fered in some measure the obloquy that has been 
dealt out to Burr. He related how Burr was 
wont to scrutinize the title of some parcel of 
land. If he found an available flaw he would 
quietly lay his plans and then come down upon 
the unsuspecting owner who would have to buy 
him off. Burr called on a client, a lady who 
had a club foot. This deformity made her wad- 
dle in an uncouth manner and upon entering the 
parlor, she begged Mr. Burr to excuse her awk- 
wardness. " Really, Madam," he replied with a 
most gallant bow, " I deemed it merely a grace- 
ful limp." 

On his maternal side, Mr. Stuart was related 
to Joshua R. Giddings, the Abolitionist Member 
of Congress from the Northwestern Reserve, and 
was notified he could come out to Ohio and com- 
plete his legal education in Mr. Giddings' of- 
fice. Toward the middle of 1834 he left New 
York City. His money for the journey was in- 
sufficient and he was stranded in Western New 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 85 

York, where he secured a place as law student in 
the office of James Burt at Franklinville, near 
Olean in Cattaraugus County. He worked for 
his board at Mr. Burt's and was allowed the use 
of the meagre library. 

For sixteen months he rode the circuit in that 
and adjoining counties in Pennsylvania and New 
York and although not admitted to the Bar tried 
such actions as are entrusted to the neophyte. 
He recalled that one of these actions — in Alle- 
gheny County, a " horse case," lasting two days — 
was tried against a rough hewn young fellow, 
named Martin Grover, whom many years after- 
ward he found sitting as one of the Judges of the 
Court of Appeals at Albany. 

Journeying in all weathers in this rough region 
was very severe. Often did he reach home at 
midnight, and tired as he was, would always care 
for his equally tired horse before going to rest 
himself. He was in his twenty-fifth year, about 
five feet eight, " well set up," as the phrase went, 
and exceedingly active. When weary of riding 
he used to spring from the saddle and run two 
or three miles along the forest trail, his well 
trained horse trotting close behind. Usually he 
carried a rifle to bring down such game as he en- 
countered. 

One of his business expeditions led him out to 



1 86 • GENEALOGY OF 



Fort Wayne, Indiana. He made his way to 
Lake Erie and sailed to Toledo, Ohio. There 
he embarked on a periauger and paddled for more 
than a hundred miles on the Maumee River. 
The stream flowed sluggishly between walls of 
primeval trees, festooned with vines. One inci- 
dent of the voyage was when a large wild tur- 
key tried to fly over the river and, its strength 
failing, fell into the water where it was easily 
captured. Landings here and there led to log 
cabins beyond the marshy borders of the river. 
By one of these cabins towered an immense 
" button ball " tree, with a curl of smoke rising 
through the foliage. He was amused to find it 
a "smoke-house." It had a door and a fire 
smouldered within the cavity which extended up 
to an orifice among the branches. Hanging from 
pegs were hams which the gaunt, sallow mistress 
of the cabin reached with a long pole. Like 
most of these settlers, she was a martyr to chills 
and fever, and the free use of whiskey was as- 
sumed to hold in check this ailment. Asking for 
a drink, she stepped to a barrel and, drawing a 
china bowl full, handed it to him. Supposing it 
was water, he took a mouthful, only to blister his 
mouth with raw spirit. Thereupon he asked for 
water. " Go out to the spring," she replied, 
pointing to an enclosure of rails, at some distance. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 87 

Here he found a spring, but it welled up in a 
swampy spot where a couple of hogs were wal- 
lowing, so he went without a drink. The wood- 
lands were filled with droves of half wild hogs 
roving about for food and only occasionally being 
fed at the house. 

The raftsmen, who floated logs down the Alle- 
gheny River to Pittsburgh, Pa., assembled their 
" drives " at Olean. These lumbermen and 
rivermen were a wild, lawless set. Gambling, 
quarreling and violence rendered Olean any- 
thing but attractive to him and he was very glad 
to get a position with adequate pay at Lock- 
port, N. Y., in the office of Robert H. Stevens, 
District Attorney of Niagara County. He 
reached Lockport in December, 1835, ^^^ ^^^ 
about ten years made it his home. On his arrival 
he found a brilliant set of young men and social 
intercourse with these educated gentlemen, after 
the dreary Circuit Riding, was indeed welcome. 
Speaking in later years of these men, he used to 
enumerate John G. Saxe and George H. Colton, 
the poets, Sullivan P. Caverno, Mortimer M. 
Southworth, etc. They met at the hotel for their 
meals. The hotel keeper set out spirits freely 
with the meals, but whoever drank brandy or 
whiskey was expected to buy port or madeira 
wine, and if a boarder failed to do so he became 



I 88 GENEALOGY OF 



aware soon of an unfriendly regard. The results 
of this mistaken hospitality were only too evident 
in the overdrinking at Lockport in those days 
and Mr. Stuart saw some promising careers ruined. 
While not a total abstainer he very rarely drank 
either wine or spirits. Everything was flourishing 
in those days and a great future was predicted for 
Lockport. 

The railroad from Lockport to Niagara Falls 
was completed just about the date of Mr. Stuart's 
arrival and in making a trip over it a curious inci- 
dent befell him. The passenger car was very small 
and as he entered he tripped upon a sprawling 
leg. Its owner, an immense man, made no move 
to withdraw the leg, but, most courteously begging 
his pardon, explained that it was rigid from a 
wound received during the War of 1812. Mr. 
Stuart entering into conversation responded that 
he had lost his father in that war. The gentle- 
man asked in what regiment he served and upon 
learning said, " Why I was Colonel of that Regi- 
ment ! What was your father's name ? " " Aaron 
Stewart from Vermont, — an Orderly Sergeant." 
" Is that so ? I distinctly recall Sergeant Stewart. 
He was a splendid specimen of a soldier." How 
curious was this chance meeting ! How gratify- 
ing to Mr. Stuart to talk with one who knew and 
appreciated his father. The individual in ques- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 89 

tion was Colonel Eleazer W. Ripley and he told 
him a great deal about the operations in that war. 

He went to Utica and July 15th, 1836, passed 
his examination for admission to the Bar being 
examined by Joshua A. Spencer. He used to 
relate that Luther R. Marsh, who sat next to him, 
became perplexed over questions upon " trover" 
propounded by Mr. Spencer. When Marsh was 
fairly cornered, Mr. Spencer asked, " At this 
stage of the action, what would you do ? " Marsh 
pondered awhile and replied, "I would advise my 
client to retain as special counsel, Joshua A. 
Spencer." The tact of this reply and its humor 
carried the day and with a general laugh he was 
" passed." Mr. Marsh and Mr. Stuart, meeting 
thus for the first time, became lifelong friends ; 
Mr. Marsh was a most tactful speaker and grace- 
ful writer and a lawyer of the greatest adroitness 
and subtlety. His hallucination as to " Diss De 
Barr Spirit Pictures," which caused such wide- 
spread comment, was a sadness to all who knew 
him. They deeply regretted seeing this courte- 
ous, venerable man exposed to the storm of ridi- 
cule showered on him by the public press. 

Soon after Mr. Stuart's admission to practice, 
he formed a partnership with Mr. Stevens and 
later Billings P. Learned was admitted to the firm 
which became very successful. 



190 GENEALOGY OF 



In May, 1837, he married Miss Jane E. Camp- 
bell in Windsor, Vermont. She was the daugh- 
ter of Edward Raymond Campbell. Three 
children were born in Lockport, N. Y., of this 
marriage: Helen, July 4, 1839; Mary, 1840, 
and Anna, 1842. 

Being a fine speaker, he was greatly in demand 
during the political campaigns. He once made 
a tour with Silas Wright, speaking with him daily 
and nightly from the same platform. One of his 
treasured mementos was an ivory headed hickory 
cane with a silver circlet inscribed, " Homer H. 
Stuart from Andrew Jackson." President Jack- 
son who knew him personally sent this to him. 
But in 1844 h^ ceased all political work, and to 
make the severance effectual, withdrew from his 
law firm. Mr. Learned a little later went to Al- 
bany, where he engaged in banking and became 
President of the old Union Bank of Albany. 
Mr. Stuart came East with his family and located 
at Williamsburgh, then a separate municipality, 
but for many years past a part of Brooklyn. He 
was corporation counsel for Williamsburgh till its 
union with Brooklyn and also had an office in 
New York City. 

Soon, however, great grief overtook him in the 
deaths of his wife and two of the children. Mary 
died July 16, 1846. Her mother, October 28, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I9I 

1846, and Anna, January 15, 1847. ^^ with 
the exception of Helen, whose pen name " Helen 
Campbell " is so well known, there are no repre- 
sentatives of this marriage. Leaving Williams- 
burgh, he settled in New York City and applied 
himself to his profession. It was in 1847 ^^at 
he became acquainted with Edgar Allan Poe 
whom he used to meet familiarly. He would 
smile as he related how Poe was wont to declaim 
" The Raven " in a singsong tone, but he evi- 
dently did not endorse the notion that Poe was a 
hard drinker. He said his manner was shy and 
that he was never garrulous. For his versifica- 
tion he had the greatest admiration and could 
quote whole poems. He was on pleasant terms 
with James Fennimore Cooper who used to write 
him very appreciative letters. He contributed 
to the Knickerbocker Magazine and knew Lewis 
Gaylord Clark, its editor, and Lewis Tappan, the 
polished Christopher P. Cranch and the courtly 
William Betts, whose delightful home, " Merrie- 
woode," revealed at once the scholar and the aris- 
tocrat. Nor must there be omitted from these 
friends the name of Andrew Jackson Downing, 
that charming personality who yielded his life 
with quiet heroism to save that of a stranger, 
and whose career of only thirty-seven years bears 
out the saying, "To Genius belongs the Here- 



192 GENEALOGY OF 



after," for that Genius lives to-day in the land- 
scape gardening of our National Capitol, and in 
many of the beautiful country seats along the 
Hudson. 

September 4, 1849, ^^ married, in New York 
City, Margaret Elizabeth Dunbar, born in 
Worthington, Conn., May 28, 1826. She was 
the daughter of Hon. Daniel Dunbar and Katha- 
rine Chauncey Goodrich. Samuel G. Goodrich 
(" Peter Parley ") was the uncle of Mrs. Homer 
H. Stuart and a most cordial intercourse existed 
between Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Stuart. Often 
did Mr. Goodrich consult him in the preparation 
of his works and notably in his last work, " The 
Illustrated Animal Kingdom," in two volumes — 
a work which has had few equals for popular 
reading and reference. 

Adjoining Mr. Stuart's country place was a 
small farm. Its owner — a very aged colored 
man — was called Barkalow. He was of the best 
type of the pure blooded African — full six feet — 
straight, well proportioned, his very black coun- 
tenance crowned with a mop of snowy wool and 
showing, when he smiled, beautiful teeth. He 
had been brought from Africa in childhood soon 
after the Revolution and while yet a young man 
had purchased his freedom. For many years he 
had followed the vocation of supplying the market 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 1 93 

with wild fowl shot on the salt marshes and bays, 
and at last by dint of economy had paid for this 
demesne of a dozen or so acres. With the aid 
of his grandson he tilled successfully and lived 
comfortably. 

Sunday afternoons Mr. Stuart would go over 
to see Barkalow. Pie loved to hear him discuss 
the phenomena of nature for the aged man was a 
very close observer. He was especially interested 
in Barkalow's description of life on the " Salt 
Meadows." Barkalow said that he had built a 
wigwam there — a frame of poles thatched with sea- 
weed from the sunbleached winrows of the spring 
tides. It had a fireplace and a couch of salt hay. 
He used to speak in graphic terms of the serenity 
that came over him when, his day's shooting done, 
he and his dog would return to this humble shelter. 
How he would prepare his evening meal and lie 
down on this bed and be lulled to sleep by a choir 
of countless crickets chirping in the seaweed thatch. 
How, when wakeful, he would lie watching the fit- 
ful gleam of the fire and listening to the cries of 
the wild fowl, winging through the darkness, while 
from afar came the booming of the Atlantic, " Deep 
calling unto Deep." " There I was never lonely," 
he said. As he talked thus, in well chosen speech, 
it was hard indeed to realize that he was unlet- 
tered, Mr. Stuart often said, " Barkalow was a 

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194 GENEALOGY OF 



poet/' and a true attachment existed between 
them. 

Yet another dusky neighbor was "Aunt Mary 
Crummell," mother of the Reverend Alexander 
Crummell, who was graduated at Cambridge, Eng- 
land, took orders in the Church of England, and 
went to Liberia where he officiated for years and 
where " Aunt Mary " died. Later he returned 
and was Rector of St. Luke's, Washington, D. C. 
In 1883 both he and Mr. Stuart were at Saratoga 
and the Reverend Mr. Crummell conducted the 
evening service. 

This allusion to Barkalow and Alexander 
Crummell summons to mind Mr. Stuart's attitude 
toward the Slavery Agitation. By heredity and 
reason he was opposed to The Institution. There 
had been some member of the Stuart family who 
had located in Virginia and acquired slaves. 
About 1800 this Stuart liberated his slaves and to 
insure their freedom sent them to Londonderry, 
N. H. The " pickaninnies," " George Washing- 
ton," " Isaiah," and " Salona," made the long 
journey from " Dixie Land," grew up, lived use- 
ful, happy lives in this quiet hamlet, and, in the 
fulness of time, one after another, passed away. 
Aged citizens spoke of them with affection as they 
recounted the friendship of yore and the tender 
ministrations of their mother " Aunt Flora " in the 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I95 

sick room. Enfolded 'neath New Hampshire's 
turf rest the little band of loyal, law-abiding Freed- 
men and the marbles erected by the town proclaim 
the old time love in which " Aunt Flora " and 
" Miss Salona Stuart " were held. Gloaming 
shrouds the events of One Hundred Years Ago 
and has obscured the given name of their eman- 
cipator. But, like the manumission granted cen- 
turies earlier by " The Dying Norman Baron," 
his righteous action lives — 

" Every vassal of his banner, 
Every serf born to his manor, 
All those wronged and wretched creatures, 
By his hand were freed again." 

Then too, on the Colt side he traced his lineage 
to a Puritan Brown in Old England from whom 
John Brown of Ossawatomie had descended. 

So in him was to be expected an inchoate dis- 
like of Slavery. He first perceived it while wit- 
nessing slave auctions at Richmond, Virginia. 
The feeling then experienced he never forgot. 
Still, on his return to the North, he did not feel 
debarred from the local political disputes of New 
York State, even though he could not blind him- 
self to the fact that Slavery as a paramount moral 
issue must some day be faced. 

His abrupt withdrawal from politics, before al- 



196 GENEALOGY OF 



luded to, was due to an incident in 1844. An 
Abolitionist came to Lockport and attempted to 
speak. His manner irritated many of the audi- 
ence who had no sympathy for his cause and to 
stop him an uproar was created. Mr. Stuart had 
strolled in to hear the address. Despite the 
speaker's lack of tact there was something pa- 
thetic in the way he tried repeatedly to resume his 
speech and it aroused Mr. Stuart's love of fair 
play. He went to the platform, and being well 
known, there was immediate silence. He said in 
effect that this was a land of free speech and that 
free speech should be granted to this man. To 
the shame of the times his plea was scorned and 
departing from the hall the local " boss " said to 
him, " You have been a fool to-night and you've 
ended all your political hopes." 

Depressed on account of this incident, recog- 
nizing that neither Whig nor Democratic Party 
had courage to face the issue, but not prepared 
to ally himself with the Extremists termed " Lib- 
erty Party Men," he absented himself from the 
political field for a long period. Myron H. 
Clark, as candidate for Governor of New York in 
1854, welded varied Anti-Slavery cohorts into the 
Republican Party. To the support of this Party 
he came with enthusiasm, and his attacks upon 
Slavery thenceforth were most earnest. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I97 

When the news came of the affair at Harper's 
Ferry in October, 1859, he did not hesitate and 
a very eloquent address which he made in defence 
of John Brown was pervaded by intense feehng. 
Threats were uttered against him, but to these he 
paid no attention. He spoke time and again in 
the memorable campaign of i860 for Lincoln and 
during the Civil War never faltered in his support 
of the Government. He felt great interest in the 
three Constitutional Amendments and in the va- 
rious Reconstruction measures. He was so ef- 
ficient in the re-election of General Grant that 
Governor Morgan of New York, who managed 
that campaign, asked him what ofBce he would 
like and was astonished when Mr. Stuart an- 
swered, " I want none whatever." 

The last time he voted at a Presidential elec- 
tion was when with his two sons he cast his bal- 
lot for Garfield. He knew Garfield personally. 
Owing to an accidental change of residence, he 
failed to vote for Blaine and Logan, greatly to his 
regret, for he admired Blaine and was well ac- 
quainted with General Logan. 

At Washington, where during the 6o's and yo's 
he passed much time, he was one of a coterie who 
used to meet informally at the Arlington Hotel. 
Among these may be recalled the witty, gifted 
Henry M. Slade, Mr. Woodbridge, Judge Mark 



198 ' GENEALOGY OF 



Skinner of Chicago, Generals W. T. Sherman, 
Alpheus S. Williams of Michigan, H. M. Whit- 
tlesey of The Freedman's Bureau, and Benjamin 
F. Butler of Lowell ; Edward J. Phelps, afterward 
Minister to England, James M. Ashley of Ohio, 
and others. 

His tastes were scholarly and not a day passed 
that he did not read the pocket Greek Testament 
which he carried with him everywhere. 

Augustus D. Shepard, Esq., an official of a 
Bank Note Engraving Company, relates that, once 
in Washington, finding it of importance to consult 
with Mr. Stuart upon a matter affecting the trade 
at large, late one Saturday night sought that gen- 
tleman at the Arlington, found him prepared to 
retire, engaged in reading. The matter discussed 
required but a few moments. Mr. Shepard when 
leaving expressed his regret for disturbing Mr. 
Stuart at such an hour. Mr. Stuart, with a 
twinkle in his eye, asked : " How is it, Mr. 
Shepard, that you depart from your rule not to 
deal with business matters on the Sabbath ? " 
" Oh ! " rejoined Mr. Shepard, " It is still ten min- 
utes to midnight." " But," he added, " let me 
ask with what absorbing book 3.re you closing the 
week ? " And, upon an assenting motion from 
Mr. Stuart, lifted the book to find it was the 
Greek Testament. Mr. Stuart's eyes twinkled 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS I 99 

Still brighter as he said, " Shepard, I do not find 
any men who need to read the Testament more 
than we Bank-Note people/' 

He gave much study to the Money Question 
and believed in Bi-metalism. In one of the 
summaries of his reading on the use of gold and 
silver as money, written in 1 837, occurs the phrase, 
" Sixteen to One." Apparently this phrase was 
not unknown to people discussing Free Coin- 
age sixty years before the Silver Campaign of 
1896. 

His lectures and occasional essays were models 
of clearness. One of these essays, " The Soul," 
was given to a friend, who read it and remarked, 
" If I could count on hearing such a sermon as 
that I would go to church every Sunday." 

His wide range of reading kept him fully in- 
formed as to the developments of Science. Dar- 
win, Huxley, Tyndall and Herbert Spencer in 
their respective fields received careful attention. 
Layard at Nineveh and the Rawlinsons in Baby- 
lonia ; Max Miiller — writers on electricity and 
chemistry — all these were reviewed with thor- 
oughness. In his latest days he came to the con- 
clusion that the Theory of Evolution was not 
established. He seemed to incline more to accept 
the Theory of Design so far as the Animal King- 
dom is concerned. This conclusion in nowise 



200 GENEALOGY OF 



interfered with his admiration of Darwin as an 
observer and thinker. 

But fascinating though Science was to him, he 
insisted that the Classics ought not to be aban- 
doned and that no true scholarship could be ac- 
quired by the mere study of Science. 

It was indeed delightful to meet with this com- 
bination of scholarship and administrative ability. 
Once a clergyman after conversing with him some 
time asked, " What is your business ? " Mr. 
Stuart's eyes twinkled and in a spirit of mischief 
he replied, " I am engaged in printing." He was 
then President of a Bank Note Company, so that 
this was a true answer to the question as put. Had 
it been, " What is your profession ? " and doubt- 
less " profession " and not " business " was the 
word intended, his answer would have been dif- 
ferent. Another time while he was walking in the 
corridor of the Arlington Hotel at Washington, 
an individual, whom he did not know, came up 
and said, " How are you. Judge? " Whereupon 
Mr. Stuart calmly replied, " I am neither a Judge 
nor a Colonel," and moved on. Some house- 
hold bill written in an illegible hand came in from 
A. T. Stewart's establishment. Unable to deci- 
pher the hieroglyphics, he returned it, first writing 
across the face, " This bill seems to charge me with 
* one bottle of rum and parts of several others.'" 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 20I 

His Store of information, as we have seen, was 
vast, but in drawing from it he was never pedantic. 
He spoke with lucidity whether addressing a 
companion or an assemblage. And indeed was 
it a pleasure listening to his " summing up " 
at the end of a trial, the modest, graceful open- 
ing, the flashes of humor midway and the cogent 
reasoning with which he closed. Not usually did 
he consume more than thirty minutes even though 
the trial had lasted four or five days. In that half 
hour he was able to lay before the jurymen his 
client's cause, holding their attention and winning 
their verdict. Conversant with every detail of his 
cause and addressing them as man to man, it is 
not surprising he riveted the attention of both 
jury and court. And moreover, he would not 
bring an action if he deemed the client was not 
morally in the right. 

As a lawyer he possessed foremost ability, but 
his efforts as a peacemaker often cut short a 
promising action, since he would bring the oppos- 
ing sides together and a settlement would result. 
One of his clients, an exceedingly rich man, sent 
him instructions to draft a will which Mr. Stuart 
saw would disinherit a daughter. He summoned 
the client and told him bluntly he would not 
draw such an unrighteous will. The client went 
off in a fury and told several of his friends. But 



a02 GENEALOGY OF 



it was found after his death he had followed the 
lawyer's advice ! This is merely an instance of 
his conscientiousness in his profession. He had, 
as remarked before, the highest ability for con- 
ducting litigation, but he drifted, as so many 
lawyers do, into the management of corporations 
and early in the 6o's became President of a Bank 
Note Company for which he had been counsel and 
which was then in a languishing condition. He 
brought new methods to bear in the conduct of 
the concern. The artistic standard of its engrav- 
ing was raised by the employment of such emi- 
nent artists as F. O. C. Darley, to furnish designs 
for its vignettes. Work was done for the United 
States Government, for Japan and other countries, 
besides engraving securities for many railroads. 
Its returns to the shareholders were very large 
and the number of employees ran up into the 
hundreds. 

About 1 871 he became very well acquainted 
with the Japanese Embassy and entertained the 
members at his home. Willow Tree, New York. 
The Marquis I to was very urgent Mr. Stuart and 
his wife should come to Japan and make him a 
visit, but the former, always an exceedingly poor 
traveler by sea, could not bring himself to under- 
take the long voyage across the Pacific Ocean. 
These pleasant relations with the Japanese con- 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 2O3 

tinued for years and many of them were welcome 
visitors at his home. All were courteous gentle- 
men, and some, like Mr. Kurino, the Minister at 
St. Petersburg, Russia (at the outbreak of the 
present war between Japan and Russia), have be- 
come greatly distinguished. 

In 1879 he withdrew from the Bank Note 
Company and resumed the practice of his profes- 
sion and was engrossed therein when the summons 
suddenly came for him to rest from his earthly tasks. 

On the morning of October 5, 1885, he read 
awhile in the little Greek Testament and placing 
the marker, closed it — for the last time. Then he 
went down town and attended the opening Fall 
Session of the Supreme Court. After finishing his 
duties there he walked to his office, just opposite 
the old Emerson office where half a century earlier 
he first looked out upon Wall Street. It is re- 
called that he gazed some time in silence across 
the street at the old building. Then, saying he 
felt weary and would return home, he started to 
depart and expired before reaching the sidewalk. 
Looking at the Testament that evening it was seen 
he had been reading the Twelfth Chapter of St. 
Luke. Years have rolled away, but the marker 
still is kept where this gifted and sincere man — 
this " loved and loving husband, father, friend," 
left it on that bright October morn. 



ADDENDA STEWART-KELLOGG.* 



Margaret Stewart,'^ (Joseph/ Joseph,^ John/ 
Robert/ Walter/) b. Troy, N. Y., April 1 8, 1 786, 
m. there June 17, 1804, ^sa Kellogg, b. in Shef- 
field, Mass., Nov. 12, 1777. Mrs. Margaret S. 
Kellogg, d. June 11, 18 19. 

Children. 

1. Eliza 7, b. July 27, 1805, d. Sept. 18, 1806. 

2. Warren Stewart 7, b. Milton, Saratoga Co., 

N. Y., March i, 1807. 

3. Edward Asa 7, b. June 15, 1808, d. Oct. 20, 

1809. 

4. Edward 7, b. Jan. 20, 18 10. 

5. Asa 7, b. July 2, 181 1, d. 1848, unmarried. 

6. Eliza 7, b. Aug. 5, 18 13, d. Sept. 15, 1815. 

Mr. Asa Kellogg, after death of Mrs. Marga- 
ret Kellogg, m. her sister Ann Stewart, 
(Joseph/ John/ Robert/ Walter,^) b. 
May 15, 1794. 

* See p. 97. 

205 



206 GENEALOGY OF 



Children. 

7. Margaret Ann 7, b. March i, 1821. 

8. Jane Eliza 7, b. April 27, 1822, d. July 15, 

1823. 

9. Jane Eliza 7, 2d, b. Sept. 26, 1823. 

10. Mary 7, b. Aug. 12, 1826. 

11. William 7, b. Aug. 25, 1829, d. Nov. 15, 

1830. 

12. Henry 7, 6. Aug. 25, 1829. 

13. Caroline 7, b. May 6, 1 833, d. Sept. 1 5, 1 835. 

Asa Kellogg d. at Troy, Aug. 23, 1836. Mrs. 
Ann Stewart Kellogg, d. April 17, 1843. 

Warren Stewart Kellogg 7, b. March i, 1807, at 
Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., m. in New 
York City, Sept. 10, 1835, Lucy Ann Raw- 
don. She was b. in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 14, 
1817, and was a graduate of the celebrated 
Emma Willard Seminary of Troy. Her 
father was Ralph Rawdon, Esq., the founder 
of the American Bank Note Company of 
New York. 

Children. 

I. Ralph Rawdon 8, b. June 21, 1836, d. Aug. 3, 
1838. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 207 

2. Edward Hastings 8, b. Feb. 27, 1838, d. 

Feb. 21, 1898, m. and had children. 

3. Lucy Ann Rawdon 8, b. June 15, 1840; un- 

married. 

4. Margaret Ann 8, b. Aug. 20, 1843. 

5. Warren Stewart 8, b. July 17, 1847; unmar- 

ried. 

6. Leverett Rawdon 8, b. Oct. 6, 1845 » ^-j ^^ 

children. 

7. Isaac Merritt 8, b. Sept. 23, 1849. 

8. Susan Arnold 8, b. July 21, 1852, d. April 29, 

1872. 

9. Abigail Wright 8, b. April 6, i860. 

Mr. W. S. Kellogg, d. in Brushville, now 
Queens, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1870. Mrs. Lucy 

R. Kellogg, d. in Queens, N. Y., Dec. 9, 

1902. 

Edward Hastings Kellogg 8, b. in New York 
City, Feb. 23, 1 83 8, m. in Brooklyn, May 30, 
1875, Maria Curtin. She was b. in Ireland, 
May I, 1853, dau. of James Curtin and 
Anne Macormac. Captain E. H. Kellogg 
graduated from The University of New York, 
in the same class with Joseph Jefferson. He 
was a volunteer in the War for the Union, 
enlisted as first lieutenant 38th Regt. N. Y. 



208 GENEALOGY OF 



Vols., was promoted for field bravery and 
mustered out at close of war. He d. in 
New York City, Feb. 21, 1898. 

Children. 

1. Irving 9 4. Mary Stewart 9 

2. Edward 9 5. Isaac 9 

3. Mabel 9 

Margaret Ann Kellogg 8, b. New York City, 
Aug. 20, 1843, ^' ^^ New York City, 
Feb. 15, 1865, Thomas Tilly Hazard, b. in 
Newport, R. I., April 23, 1839. He was 
the son of Mumford Tilly and Sallie Tew 
Tilly ; resides at Elizabeth, N. J. 

Children. 

1. Leverett Kellogg 9, b. in New York City, 

Jan. 12, 1866. 

2. Helen Phelps 9, b. in Orange, N. J., June 8, 

1868. 

3. Sallie Rawdon 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., Dec 7, 

1870. 

4. Thomas Tilly, Jr., 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 

Aug. 5, 1875. 

5. Margaret Kellogg 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 

March 31, 1881. 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 209 

6. Abigail Kellogg 9, b. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
March 31, 1886. 

Leverett Kellogg Hazard, m. in Elizabeth, N. J., 
Nov. 14, 1894, Elizabeth Burt Dunlap, b. in 
Jersey City, July 26, 1873, ^^^- of A. Jud- 
son Dunlap and Mary EHzabeth Dunlap, 
both of Ovid, N. Y. 

Isaac Merritt Kellogg 8, b. in New York City, 
Sept. 23, 1849, rnarried Emma Wood, dau. 
of Col. A. M. Wood, ex-Mayor of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. ; resides at Hollis, N. Y. ; Lawyer. 

Children. 

1. Rawdon Wright 9, b. in Brooklyn, Feb. 18, 

1878, married Oct. 20, 1903, Louise Tap- 
pen in Jamaica, N. Y. She is the dau. of 
Charles Irving Tappen, b. in Huntington, 
L. I., and Sarah Carver Brown of Taunton, 
Mass. He is a practicing lawyer. 

2. Lucie Wood 9, b. April 30, 1879, Queens, 

N. Y. 

Abigail Wright Kellogg 8, b. in Queens, N. Y., 
April 6, i860, married Adolph Van Rein, 
Esq., at Hollis, Queens Borough, New 
York City. 

14 



ADDENDA STEWART-SHAFTER. 



* 



Oscar L. Shafter, d. , 1873, Florence, 

Italy. 
Sarah R. Shafter,' (Sarah/ Enos/ John,^ 
• Charles,* John,^ Robert,^ Walter.^) 

Children. 

1. Emma 9, m. C. W. Howard. 

2. Mary 9, m. Mr. Orr. 

3. Sara Maude 9, b. in San Francisco, Cal., 

Nov. 15, 1856. 

4. Bertha Stewart 9. 

5. Eva Riddell 9. 

Sara Maude 9, married Edward E. Goodrich 
(b. Aug. 12, 1845) ^^ Boston, Mass., 
April 23, 1878. 

Children. 

I. Florence Shafter 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 
March 22, 1879, d. June 15, 1881. 

* See p. 105, 

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212 GENEALOGY OF 



2. Bertha Shafter lo, b. at Abetone Pistojese, 

Italy, July 12, 1880. 

3. Chauncey Shafter 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 

Sept. 19, 1 881. 

4. Elizabeth Ely 10, b. in Florence, Italy, 

Oct. 14, 1885. 

5. Frances Juliana 10, b. in Lausanne, Switzer- 

land, May 18, 1887. 



APPENDIX. 



Children of Charles and Mary Stewart. 

1. Robert, b. , d. , age, 9 

months. 

2. Susannah, b. , m. ist, Charles Forbes 

of Truxton, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1807, m. 2d, 
Asa Austin of Homer, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1821, 
d. at McGrawville, N. Y., May 13, 1849. 

Children by First Marriage. 
I. William, b. at Truxton, Dec. 3, 1807, ^' • 



2. Jennet, b. Sept. 10, 18 10, d. April 7, 1833. 

3. Charles, b. Jan. 3, 1812, d. . 

4. Oramel, b. March 15, 1 8 14, d. in Canandaigua, 

N. Y., Feb. 24, 1884; resided in Homer, 

N. Y. 

Children by Second Marriage. 

I. Susan, b. in Homer, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1822, m. 
Harvey Hubbard of Norwich, N. Y., at Mc- 
Grawville, Sept. II, 1844, d. 1 901. 

(213) 



214 GENEALOGY OF 



2. Mary, b. in Homer, N. Y., Nov. i8, 1823, m. 

Henry S. Phelps of M orris ville, N. Y., in 
Robertson Co., Tenn., June 29, 1854, d. 
1903. 

3. Harriet, b. in Homer, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1825, m. 

De Witt Clinton of McGrawville, June 24, 
1849. 

2. Mary, b. , m. Edward Hopkins in 

Truxton, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1807, ^' ^^ Evans- 
ville, Ind. Pioneers, 11 children. 

4. John, b. , d. in Truxton, 1797, from 

accidental poisoning. 

5. Sophia, b. , m. in Naples, N. Y., 

John A. Hinkley, d. in Starkey, Gates Co., 
N. Y., April 15, 1885. No children. 

6. Anna, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 

Rufus Stearns, Sept. 19, 1815, d. in Benning- 
ton, Vt., Sept. 8, 1823, 5 children. 

7. Huldah, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 

Backus Kinney, Jan. 6, 18 14, d. in White- 
water, Wis., June 12, 1864, 14 children. 

8. Sally, b. , m. in Truxton, N. Y., 

Dr. Elisha Doubleday, d. in Italy Hill, 
Gates Co., N. Y., 6 children, two of them, 
Mrs. Samantha Wixon and Mrs. Livania 
Gulick are residents of Italy Hill, N. Y. 

9. Rhoda, b. , m. ist, Samuel Leonard, 



LONDONDERRY STEWARTS 21 5 

1 children ; m. 2d, Rufus Stearns (husband of 
Anna) of Bennington, Vt., Aug. 1 7, 1 8 26 ; m. 
3d, Alanson Squires of Bennington, Vt., 
Feb. 8, 1826, d. in Bennington, Vt., 

March 4, 1844, 2 children. 

The above record was furnished by Mrs. Mary- 
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